Happy NYE

[clevermanka]

Apparently there's been some discoveries about Really Early People eating cooked vegetables. There's a ton of news articles out there. Pick one. This, of course, has prompted several paleo bloggers to post their thoughts on the findings. I've skimmed them, but I'm no longer interested in reading what early hominids ate. I learned what I needed to from that, made adjustments to my diet, and found what works for me. To tell you the truth, it wouldn't matter to me if suddenly someone found proof that we'd been eating Twinkies for a quarter of a million years. Cutting grains and sugar from my diet makes me feel great, and going off plan usually results in my feeling gross and uncomfortable. That's the reason I eat this way.

Found on ontd_science: Psychology Today reports that baby talk hinders learning.

"Does Johnny have to go potty?" "Do you want some wa wa?"

Speaking to young children this way sounds sweet and motherly, but it may also slow down language development. A study published in Cognitive Psychology suggests that speaking in complex sentences to young children may set a better example and improve their language skills.

Jesus H., this required a study? Also, it does not sound "sweet and motherly." It sounds fucking stupid.

This morning's thunderstorm (btw, wtf thunderstorm) woke me at just after 4:30. I decided to get up and enjoy the novelty of lightning and thunder on New Year's Eve, but alas, the whole thing had blown over by 4:45. So now I'm tiredly awake and quite glad that I didn't have plans to go out tonight because wow I'm gonna be sleepy early this evening.

I was feeling...inspired...yesterday afternoon and continued to hold that motivation until the house was clean. So my big plans for tonight are already wrapped up. This means I can devote as much of the evening as I want to arty stuff*. That'll be a great way to wrap up the year. I might venture out to the hardware store today to pick up the clear coat (the one I said I was going to buy days ago), but other than that, I'm sticking close to home for the next 72 hours. Bliss!

Update: I am not going on any errands today. I finally opened the front curtains at 8:49 this morning and good god, what a nightmare that street looks to be. As soon as mckitterick is awake, I'm going to ask him where the de-icer pellets are because the sidewalk looks 100% hazardous.

How are you all bringing in 2011?

* Working on arty stuff will also allow me time to finally listen to the TacFit Warrior Q&A video blog that Scott Sonnon did several weeks ago.

Comments

[femfataleatron.livejournal.com]

Goldilocks approach. Paleo™ is a fine dieting approach, it works well for me. Anthropologically speaking it becomes pretty clear that it bears almost no relationship to any testable hypothesis of how people actually ate. From an evolutionary standpoint? Also no testable hypothesis. in practice this is not really important, but if your practice works and your theory doesn't…
As for baby talk, I feel pretty sorry for what passes for science today. I think this is largely a media problem rather than a science problem per se, but maybe I'm just being overly optimistic. Whatever happened to first principles?

[femfataleatron.livejournal.com]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akk5EvTMGKo&feature=player_embedded
See!! this is what I'm talking about!!!

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

Oh, you just had to find something like that where her name was Lydia, didn't you?

Also, couldn't the parent/guardian/whomever have waited until that child was over her cold to film that?

Signed,
Someone who doesn't get her energy from pastel colors

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

in practice this is not really important, but if your practice works and your theory doesn't…

I'm curious what comes after your ellipsis.

Whatever happened to first principles?

Funding. And possibly fearfully conservative religious nut jobs.

[femfataleatron.livejournal.com]

... Then your theory is crap and needs to be replaced. working practice/non-working theory, is a sign of some sort of ideological bias, usually. Protestant work ethic is a great example. Hard work is a consequence of being saved? This is a kind of reverse logic that appeals to folks interested in compliance rather than effectiveness.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

This is a kind of reverse logic that appeals to folks interested in compliance rather than effectiveness.

Or folks desperate for reassurance of their superiority.

"I'm a white xtian, so I work harder than those dirty brown people who worship Mary."