Chicken brains

Animal Planet News: "Chickens think about the future"

New York Times: "If chickens are so smart, why aren't they eating us?"

EggIndustry.com: Chicken intelligence - expert opinions

Milius, Susan. "Breaking the Code on Chicken Clucks." Science News, 156:9 (28 Aug 1999) 135.

Quebec name changes

"Both spouses keep their birth names after marriage and continue to exercise their civil rights under that name, i.e. they must use their birth name in contracts, on credit cards, on their driver's licence, etc. However, women are free however to assume their husband's name socially. Women married before April 2, 1981 who already use their husband's last name to exercise their civil rights may continue to do so." (Quebec Ministry of Justice)

CTV.ca article on marital name change in Quebec (2007)

Articles to read

Senate makes themselves useful for the first time in my memory

Myanmar becomes slightly less unbelievably insane

The US tries to pick a Cold War

Appeals court rules Texas is plagued with judicial idiot

Most common sleeping positons

New Class Blog

The Obligatory Blog, for my Persuasive Writing class, is under way.

Andyogramy

I have a new post at andyogramy.blogspot.com. Random exercises from last night.

New list

My newest list is a list of things I don't like to eat. My mom has been asking me for this list since the beginning of time, so now I'm writing it down as I think of it. Love you, Mom. Thanks for putting up with your picky sons.

Graduation

I applied for graduation! Somehow, having given the school $15 to print out my diploma just makes it all so much more real. Too bad I'm still here for another 4 months.

Also, I'm really cuddle-hungry. I've been thinking all day about how much fun it is to relax on the couch with someone you love, and also how much of a difference it makes if that love is of the romantic sort. It's too bad my beliefs disqualify me in the eyes of a substantial percentage of the school's available women.

It's probably the most frustrating part of my day-to-day here at this school that I realise this is one of the few places in America where my faith is semi-criminal. It's strange how persecution can be both the cross a community professes to carry and the weapon it wields against those around it; at the same time, it's the abused that are most likely to become abusers, isn't it? Maybe I should concentrate on that point of view so I don't fall into the same pattern myself.

Confucianism versus Mormonism

Sometimes, I think I'm trying to get myself expelled from BYU. It's a good thing my TA is Understanding. Here's the last paragraph of my most recent homework entry, on the differences between Confucianism and Mormonism.

The greatest difference I can see between the two schools of thought is that while Confucianism is rather misogynistic, it makes no attempts to justify its beliefs, nor does it pretend to put men and women on any sort of equal ground. The Church of Jesus Christ, instead of embracing its sexism, continues to make bland and unconvincing claims that the roles of men and women are separate, but equal. While my position is obviously very much an inflammatory one, I stand behind it, and am quite willing to discuss it in greater detail. I consider the chauvinism of the Church quite beyond reasonable doubt, and while I reserve a personal opinion of the Church's gender roles, I don't mean to suggest God would have them defined otherwise.

K'iche' play

The play was entitled "the Death of Seven Macaw". When I read the Popol Wuj version of the story, it seemed more to me that he just lost all his coolness, and therefore had nothing to make him noteworthy. He does die, though, so it must have just been the translation I read that confused me.

I have pictures on Facebook. I think you should be able to view them even without an account, but if you have a problem, let me know.

View the program for "All the College is a Stage"