When I looked it up earlier, it said this was from Parade. Good memory!

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There was a Saint Elmo at least.

That one has been top of mind for me this week, because my kid’s pediatrician mentioned that they had found dangerously high lead levels in another patient recently, but the source wasn’t the local water, it was heavy spices used in middle-eastern foods.

It’s also nice to know how your meals were cooked. Is the restaurant using cheap quality spices that might have heavy metals in them? Are they heating up sauces in plastic liners and leeching an insane amount of microplastics? How about their Teflon pans, are they all scratched up?

Not to mention employee hygiene and unsanitary conditions.

Stay strong out there

Whoa, TIL

Ha, yeah. The artist seems to love the fan service.

It’s Ren & Stimpy, but I have no idea which episode.

An episode with Quark leading a protest like that on the promenade would have been amazing.

9/10th of a cent. It’s incredibly stupid.

It started out because of tacked on government tax and has persisted because it visually looks a cent cheaper at a glance.

These posts are great. I wish I had some idea what this game was…

it looks like the N64/PSX/Dreamcast era. Hmm.

Very true. I’ve never worked with kids, but after having kids myself and seeing this “chromosomal slot machine” pull in action, it’s so apparent that a lot of personality is baked in. I used to be quite the behaviorist/blank-slatist too.

On the note of research selection bias, how about the realization that most research is done on college students who are trying to get class credit, and that most of the research work is also being done by students? And that it’s almost never going to be replicated? I think the general public has this idea that most science is being done by a bunch of specialized men/women in labcoats with decades of experience, not hungover 20-somethings talking to hungover 20-somethings. In reality, that’s probably 99% of it.

A lot of children’s entertainment is body horror… I was recently rewatching Spongebob with my kids, and even that had a bunch of scenes where horrible things happened to the characters.

A lot of the non-human characters are following the Spock blueprint, which I appreciate: the fish-out-of-water who needs to fit in, while plotlines do the Gene Roddenberry “we celebrate our differences” thing.

Maybe it’s his wife dropping in to surprise him at work.

Complex characters in complex situations make the writing more interesting to me too.

I think neither the nature or nurture hardliners would be satisfied with the answer to most of these types of questions in psych, because it likely lands somewhere in between.

I also share the frustration with the field being so susceptible to trends of ideology: proposed topics of research, what gets approved, what gets replicated, what gets published (not to mention sloppy methodology that always seems to err on the side of the desired results). In the past, research was rigidly flavored by genetics/evolution/immutable traits because it was built on the model of biology/medicine. In recent history, it’s been influenced by the idea that we’re largely blank slates, because the questions that would come up if we’re not are socially uncomfortable.

As I’ve gotten older too, I’ve also had to get more comfortable with the answer being “it depends” or reframing it to a purely objective-oriented perspective (i.e. “Ok, can we actually do with this information?”).

So true, king.