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"I wouldn't describe myself as a germaphobe
That makes one of us. What you describe is not what most people do. Most people do not carry antibacterial gel to deal with touching a subway pole. Most people do not get skeeved out from a public..." [
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"It's been a few years since I had to think about this stuff, but:
The general topic you're asking about is what a symbolic-interactionist sociologist would call impression management. (You might recognize the name Erving Goffman, whose book The..." [
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"I don't want to be as bland as khakis and a polo
Sport jackets and odd trousers. Occasionally with jeans instead. And worship at the altar of fit.
Seriously, it's a lot easier than you think it is. You need pants: maybe a couple pair of..." [
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"This isn't a problem unique to sociology -- see the old joke about how biology is applied chemistry is applied physics is applied math, etc.
There's similarly a lot of overlap in the social sciences, especially now. But even when Comte..." [
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"If you click on some of the photos, they are NASA photos, but the text says "CREDIT MUST BE GIVEN IN FULL", but NASA photos should be public domain...
ALERT CORY DOCTOROW IMMEDIATELY...." [
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"In the same way that apples are just marketing-speak for a particular kind of orange." [
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"She didn't ask "what astrology expects". She told us what astrology expected. And now she's chatting about what might specifically happen to her, which is completely hypothetical and completely chatfilter.
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"I wish I could use that uninitialized memory to cope pipe without a jig." [
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"I never would have discovered this "Reuters" if not for this post." [
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"This amuses me, though:
1 The placebo effect
[...] This is the placebo effect: somehow, sometimes, a whole lot of nothing can be very powerful. [...]
4 Belfast homeopathy results
[...] You can understand why Ennis remains sceptical. And it..." [
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"Generally, develop mindfulness. It might seem vague and kind of touchy-feely, but the three things you mention are familiar to me, and one solution (rather than workaround) is to cultivate attention.
I'm not aware of any good Web-based..." [
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