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March 11, 2016
7QT: Making swords, long eggs, and “curatorially unsound” decisions
— 1 — I already loved A Capella Science’s “Outbound Probe” and now I’ve been dancing around to “LIGO Feel That Space,” a relyricization of “I Can’t Feel My Face” that’s about the discovery of gravitational waves. — 2 — I love nerdy fandoms, but I’m still snickering a little bit at the fact that [Read More...]
March 10, 2016
Stats & Chat about the primaries with In The Arena
Last week, I was a guest on In The Arena to talk about the aftermath of Super Tuesday and to look ahead to Second Super Tuesday. (Is that what we’ve agreed to call it? Has anyone reached out to Merry and Pippin for comment?). You can check out my segment (and my stats) below. And although [Read More...]
March 4, 2016
Oy gevalt, here’s some spiritual reading
I’m tuckered out from liveblogging last night’s debate for work, so no quick takes this week. Instead, I’d like to send you over to Catherine Addington’s tumblr for an excellent reflection on the Transfiguration. Here’s the part that really struck me. (The quoted bit is from St. Francis de Sales, the next bit is from [Read More...]
February 22, 2016
Pinning down *which* error is made in this adultery advice
I love reading Mallory Ortberg at The Toast, and, while I was reading through her chat with Longreads on her favorite advice columns, I wound up reading this response by Ijeoma Oluo to an advice seeker wondering if she was obliged to not be “the other woman” out of solidarity for the wife of the man [Read More...]
February 19, 2016
7QT: Horror, Lamentation, and Email Management
— 1 — I don’t remember whether I’ve mentioned here that I like using Boomerang to manage my email. I can write emails ahead of time and have boomerang send them later or schedule an email to turn up in my inbox right when I need it (say, a half hour before the meeting it pertains [Read More...]
February 18, 2016
Letting Go of the Goal of a Hardcore Lent
I’m at Aleteia today to talk about picking small sacrifices for Lent, and staying open to unplanned, unanticipated disciplines (all of which is hard for me as a big scheduler and organizer!). Here’s an excerpt: I wanted to find something to give up, or some rule to follow, because as a (still fairly new!) convert, [Read More...]
February 17, 2016
Finding Ways to Let Lent Interrupt
It’s been a week since Ash Wednesday and the beginning of Lent, and, if you notice you’re having a little trouble remembering that it’s Lent (aside from the different colors at church), you might want to take a look through Eve Tushnet’s Lent A-Z to see if any of her thoughts are fruitful for you. [Read More...]
February 16, 2016
On Beyond Valentine’s Day!
I’ve got two great essays to share now that Valentine’s Day is over, and you have to go on muddling through how to offer and receive love without quite so much guidance from Hallmark. First up, in First Things, Alexi Sargeant has a great piece on dating and courtship, and the kind of deliberate work couples [Read More...]
February 13, 2016
My Statistician’s Guide to Valentine’s Day
I’ve written two pieces at FiveThirtyEight that may be of interest to those of you celebrating Valentine’s Day this weekend. First up: The Cheapskate’s Guide To Buying Flowers For Valentine’s Day If you bought your roses on Feb. 10 and took good care of them, you might still have a bouquet to bestow on Feb. [Read More...]
February 12, 2016
7QT: Good books, fake books, and the best job in the world
— 1 — I’m excited about the discovery of gravity waves, and here’s the most delightful thing I learned in the process of reading about the discover (via The New Yorker) The LIGO team includes a small group of people whose job is to create blind injections—bogus evidence of a gravitational wave—as a way of keeping [Read More...]
