Maybe I could just turn this in?

Laugh of the Medusa, Helene Cixous, Wordle-d.

Dear Philosophy: I love you. I love you I love you I love you.

"This paper discusses abductive reasoning---that is, reasoning in which explanatory hypotheses are formed and evaluated. First, it criticizes two recent formal logical models of abduction. An adequate formalization would have to take into account the following aspects of abduction: explanation is not deduction; hypotheses are layered; abduction is sometimes creative; hypotheses may be revolutionary; completeness is elusive; simplicity is complex; and abductive reasoning may be visual and non-sentential. Second, in order to illustrate visual aspects of hypothesis formation, the paper describes recent work on visual inference in archaeology. Third, in connection with the evaluation of explanatory hypotheses, the paper describes recent results on the computation of coherence."

http://cogsci.uwaterloo.ca/Articles/Pages/%7FAbductive.html

Inspirational Sports Film

Um. I have issues with ISFs. But. Got chills watching this trailer.

Baby Pygmy Hippo!

I subscribe to this blog, and I save posts for emergencies. Like finals week.

Look at this house I found.

Made of gingerbread.

Adorable food!

Here in general and here in particular.

Look what I made!

Here.

babies!

Bahahaha.

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This feels punny to me. And somehow perfectly turned.

Dear the Daily Universe.

A letter from the DU:

Letter: WRI lies

Mon, 11/16/2009 - 21:45

If you didn’t sign the petition in support of the Women’s Research Institute Thursday at their demonstration, consider yourself lucky because it would have been a huge waste of time.

The rally was intended to spread more lies and rumors about why the WRI was dissolved.

For example, their Facebook page does little to explain the real issues, saying that “there is deep symbolic meaning in the elimination of the WRI, deeper than a lot of us would like to know.”

I’m sure many of us would like to know what that “deeper meaning” actually is because from what I can tell the reasons for eliminating the WRI have been made explicitly clear.

BYU Academic Vice President John S. Tanner has outlined several reasons as to why the institute was reorganized. To start, the study of women’s issues at BYU should not be confined to only one institution, and the restructuring of the WRI acknowledges the fact that women’s studies at BYU is already a part of the academic disciplines.

Also, the reorganization will more than triple the amount of discretionary money available for women’s research at BYU, so the protesters’ claim that women’s research will receive less funding is a lie! Finally, don’t forget that this decision was well thought out by highly spiritual and intellectual individuals.

It is morally wrong for us to question the judgment of our inspired leaders. Stop crying about the loss of your feminist club. Men seem to be doing perfectly fine without one.

Stefan Gardner
Heber City

For more info on the WRI closing (i.e. feminist lies), see:

here

and

here.


Sometimes I hate so many things about the way this place (some people here?) chooses to be.