I suppose this is probably obvious to everyone who knows anything about planets..and time..and the sun.. but I was discussing at a party before how I was shocked to realized the days are getting longer just by seconds. Also, how it felt like we had long days..long long long long…and then suddenly WHAM they became [...]
All posts for the month December, 2010
Days do stay short for a long time…
Posted by Shubha on December 23, 2010
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Shortest day..yay!
The shortest day of the year has never been more relevant for me than now, where the sun is setting around 4:30. Things can only go up now! But it looks like for the next week or so, any increase in day length is only in seconds: Today Wed 22 Thu 23 Fri 24 Sat [...]
Posted by Shubha on December 21, 2010
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India takes over the late 1800s..as per Google Books
So you all knew it was bound to happen…I was going to start playing around with Google Ngram viewer – the tool to graph instances of words in all the google books. Find it here. http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/ So I started with “India” and immediately found something fun! India has this huge peak in the late 1800s. [...]
Posted by Shubha on December 20, 2010
http://shubhabala.com/archives/914
Merry Christmas and Holidays!
You should have all received this by e-mail, but I’m posting it to my blog in case! My holiday greeting card was this crossword I made of my 2010 year. Enjoy! (It’s a jpg you can download and print out) Solutions:
Posted by Shubha on December 20, 2010
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Questions on Canadian law?
My friend Russ agreed to summarize for me the differences between the Canadian legal system and American legal system for bloggy purposes (and because I don’t know). Before I ask him, I thought I’d see if any of you had questions?
Posted by Shubha on December 17, 2010
http://shubhabala.com/archives/904
Professional crack smokers, stereotypes and wine tasting
I have a bunch of articles that I’ve been flagging to blog and haven’t had time. So I’m just going to list them. I’ve been thinking recently about going for a phd, and this article seals the deal. It’s a contest, won by a Canadian, to include “I smoke crack rocks” in a published paper: [...]
Posted by Shubha on December 17, 2010
http://shubhabala.com/archives/899
Free Falafel
For work I’ve been researching about this guy who has created the “Islamic-inspired” comic book THE 99. In two interviews I’ve seen him tell this story that I think is hilarious! This is from his TED Talk: As an undergrad at Tufts University, we were giving away free falafel one day and, you know, it [...]
Posted by Shubha on December 17, 2010
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Gay Bashing at the Smithsonian
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/12/opinion/12rich.html?_r=2&hp Such was the case with David Wojnarowicz, a painter, author and filmmaker, who, like Haring, was a fixture of the East Village arts scene in the 1980s. When his mentor and former lover, the photographer Peter Hujar, fell ill with AIDS in 1987, Wojnarowicz created a video titled “A Fire in My Belly” to [...]
Posted by Shubha on December 14, 2010
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Snowpocalypse!
It really is. It’s not an exaggeration. Fifth biggest snowstorm in recorded history here. I got stuck at Christine and Jon’s last night! Which was actually fun…but it’s crazy that I couldn’t get home from about 14 blocks away. The buses stopped running yesterday after 70 of 220 buses got stuck in snow. We saw [...]
Posted by Shubha on December 12, 2010
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1000 Words for Snow
The Twin Cities is heading into “the four snowman of the apocalypse” weekend. 20″ of snow in some areas, and right now there’s about 9″ of snow near me (it’s 9:30 am and it hadn’t started snowing yet at 10 pm last night). This may be the biggest storm in the past decade, but I [...]
Posted by Shubha on December 11, 2010
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