February 2011
45 posts
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Egyptian Uprising! Perspective of an American... →
The recent uprising in Egypt has been all over the news, and is an incredibly exciting time for a young Political Science major such as myself. I just had to write about it! If you want to know more about the situation, or simply comment on what you think America should do, check out the blog post above!
ShortFormBlog: Speak2Tweet: Google makes Egypt's... →
shortformblog:
lame Egypt has shut down Noor, the last ISP standing in the country, leaving the country completely, utterly offline. Great work.
lame Egypt also plans to shut down the country’s mobile phone systems ahead of the planned “March of Millions” tomorrow. Very lame.
brilliant Google…
January 2011
6 posts
Hedonic treadmill →
bestofwikipedia:
The hedonic treadmill, also known as hedonic adaptation, is the supposed tendency of humans to quickly return to a relatively stable level of happiness despite major positive or negative events or life changes. According to this theory, as a person makes more money, expectations and desires rise in tandem, which results in no permanent gain in happiness. (via sleevia)
Very,...
“For some reason, the most vocal Christians among us never mention the...”
– Kurt Vonnegut (via fuckyeahchristianradicalism)
He made a good point.
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Wow… Amazing where our Christian principles have led us. 