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New: 1. Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of my Hasidic Roots by Deborah Feldman 2. The Theft of Memory: Losing My Father, One Day at ...

I was looking at this 30-second YouTube video of a toddler ring bearer who was reluctant to walk all the way to the altar and his innovative...

As I've mentioned before, one of the many things I dislike about myself is that I'm not (and can't seem to get) knowledgeable en...

While writing my previous blog post , I came up with an idea for a knife that can't be used as a murder weapon. If the blade of the kn...

With the various US shootings in the news and a constant flow of information about how gun industry money is influencing US politics, my sho...

I've occasionally seen people say they're voting for various buffoonish political candidates for amusement purposes, because they wa...

16. Some people seem to be under the impression that people can choose their feelings. They then go and give advice to others on that assump...

For years and years, I've been telling the universe to invent things for me . This week I shut up and invented the things for myself! ...

I previously came up with the idea that developers should provide a user manual for new homes.  Today my shower gave me an idea for how that...

An article about a law in Massachusetts that would allow people to break into hot cars to rescue pets turned up in my social media, and I w...

Some people say cruel things to others and if called out on it say "Can't you take a joke?" Some people think "a good s...

This post contains non-graphic descriptions of killing household pests from a phobic point of view. My severe phobia of bugs means that i...

New: 1. In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom by Yeonmi Park with Maryanne Vollers 2. Not in Front of the Corgis...

This post is about the information that reaches people (including me) organically, without them making any effort to find it, as opposed to ...

I recently blogged about the problem of the medical system requiring patients to provide their own support people .  In the comments of that...

I was shocked to receive an email from LinkedIn cheerfully announcing "We have translated parts of your public profile into German!...

I recently saw someone on Twitter muse that, upon reflection, they don't feel that they have gender identity as a separate entity from b...

I've been reading this glorious MetaFilter thread about Emotional Labour , and I have many many thoughts about it. I should probably sta...

From a recent Carolyn Hax chat : Hi, Carolyn. Love your weekly chats! Thanks for all you do! I have to have a (non-emergency but necessa...