The technique can be learned from the book, The Relaxation Response, available from Amazon for $8.

It is also available on-line from various disgruntled teachers and professional skeptics. Keep in mind that the technique is at best an overhyped stress-reduction procedure and at worst self-hypnosis that the TM community combines with indoctrination.

That said, I was an active TM-er for about four years and I don't regret it, just the $600 my... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by anotherpanacea at 2:31 PM on July 8, 2008

it's an acute pain, not chronic, so I haven't tried anti-inflamatories. To make matters worse, I'm alergic to NSAIDs.
posted to Ask Metafilter by anotherpanacea at 5:07 PM on June 22, 2008

Looking at the scaphoid break symptoms, I don't see much that corresponds with my pain. I don't have any of this:

Pain and tenderness on the thumb side of the wrist.
Motion (gripping) may be painful.
May be some swelling on back and thumb side of wrist.
Pain may subside, then return as a deep, dull aching.
Marked tenderness to pressure on the "anatomical snuffbox," a triangular-shaped area on the side of... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by anotherpanacea at 5:10 AM on June 23, 2008

Unless you are a Kant scholar, and probably even if you are, you should use Werner Pluhar's version because it is easiest for novices to read and that's an insanely huge accomplishment. In any just world Werner would be a billionaire from the royalties.

I read Kemp Smith as an undergraduate and Guyer as a graduate student and I will side with Pluhar every time unless I am writing an article, (which coincidentally I'm doing right now) and then I pull out the German and... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by anotherpanacea at 2:54 PM on June 22, 2008

This is a hotly debated point in marxist and labor organizing circles, but I think it's a bit clearer among scholars of Marx. There are good reasons that most scholars resist ascribing the teleological view you've laid out to Marx and instead attribute it to Russian interpreters like Lenin. If you haven't already, take a look at the German Ideology, especially the first part on Feuerbach and the materialist conception of history.

Treating history in terms of stages or... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by anotherpanacea at 5:27 AM on June 17, 2008

Thanks all! The Powell's idea is pretty interesting: on the one hand, it requires me to type out ISBNs, and no CueCat in sight, but it looks like they're offering about 20-30% of list price. It's all credit of course, which just means more books, but we don't have to tell my partner that just now.... :-)
posted to Ask Metafilter by anotherpanacea at 10:59 AM on May 29, 2008

I'd also like to be able to get into a habit of writing regularly, and not having to churn out 20 pages in a night.

Other issues include things like working out regularly, sticking to a healthy diet, and just getting out of bed in the morning....

It sounds like you're suffering from graduate school's lack of structure. This is the number one hurdle that graduate school presents: you've managed it so far by being intelligent... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by anotherpanacea at 12:15 PM on May 13, 2008

Thanks all for the advice: I went with flowers, and the Superhero Designs necklace, though I think I might retroactively make the Shakespeare Theater season pass a graduation gift because that sounds awesome, and hey, what fun would it be for her if I didn't come along? :-)
posted to Ask Metafilter by anotherpanacea at 9:48 AM on May 12, 2008

also speculation, since I don't know him personally, but many who call him a friend say poh-guh. I'm thinking specifically of Matthias Risse, David Reidy, and Kok-Chor Tan, who all mostly call him Thomas but retreat to Poh-guh in some public settings.
posted to Ask Metafilter by anotherpanacea at 8:24 AM on April 24, 2008

I'd suggest you look into "The Epistemology of Ignorance" or "agnatology." The term was coined by Charles Mills to describe the production of ignorance about racial prejudice through common agreement to ignore that fact, but it's come to be used in a lot of different contexts to explain how a culture produces spaces of ignorance and blank spots on the map, either for some or for all. One classic example is midwifery, which was significantly more knowledgeable about female... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by anotherpanacea at 5:01 PM on April 14, 2008

Something of this sort of argued by Kant: we can't know anything about God's existence one way or the other, but we have to assume the postulate of God's existence to make sense of our moral practice.

A little bit more on this: one of the major tensions in moral theory is the existence of apparently widespread injustice. If we think, as many theists do, that intentions rather than consequences are the relevant feature of our moral lives, it's hard to... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by anotherpanacea at 8:44 AM on April 6, 2008

LM- Two things. For some of the circle, there's an automatic recoil at all things related to BL, since the topic is somewhat 'continental.' More to the point, that discussion is purely theoretical. It resolves the preprint/publication issue, but I think the biggest concern may be 'reputation.' To my mind, having work available for criticism and redrafting makes it stronger, not weaker. But not everyone agrees: they think they'll be caught misdeclining in Greek or somesuch and rendered... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by anotherpanacea at 5:36 AM on April 2, 2008

advil- I think the concern is with professional plagiarism, not student attempts. That is, the ideas and arguments in a draft could find their way into an article for a more established scholar, and the junior scholar wouldn't have much recourse since most people in the profession would tend to credit the senior scholar.

I naively believe that this very rarely happens, but I also don't quite know what -I- would do if put in that situation. Just look at Rosalind Franklin.... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by anotherpanacea at 5:42 AM on April 2, 2008

My vote goes to the Christian Science Monitor.

Basically, the Economist has a financial bias and the CSM has a bias in favor of reporting human rights abuses. The Economist is denser, and the CSM is daily, though it has a weekly format the culls the most important articles.

If you read the Economist for a long time, the op-eds will start to infect your thinking about the world. I'm not sure if there's a house economic theory,... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by anotherpanacea at 3:40 PM on March 31, 2008

What if, instead of jumping, you dropped and did push ups, or maybe yoga?

I know nothing about TS except what I've read in Motherless Brooklyn, but that's what I do when I get antsy.
posted to Ask Metafilter by anotherpanacea at 3:18 PM on March 31, 2008

More on yoga: if you went to some sort of vigorous yoga class like a "Vinyasa" or "Ashtanga" class, you'd be taught a fairly regular set of exercises that require breath control and are physically strenuous. In many ways, it's a perfect fit for the symptoms you describe. But push-ups might be a faster solution.
posted to Ask Metafilter by anotherpanacea at 3:24 PM on March 31, 2008

Ubuntu doesn't look like it's ready yet. As for gotomypc and dyndns, they're both monthly subscription services, right? I was hoping for a self-serve option.
posted to Ask Metafilter by anotherpanacea at 9:07 AM on March 13, 2008

He's neutered, doesn't like any scratching post that doesn't look like a chair, and has several outdoor viewing areas. The door, on the other hand, does not look out: he's just learned from experience that, occasionally, it opens. Also, so far as we can tell, there aren't any other animals prowling nearby, though of course they could be farther out.
posted to Ask Metafilter by anotherpanacea at 8:19 PM on February 15, 2008

An update: squirting him in the middle of the night is not effective. He either ignores it, or runs away, chastised, and then returns five minutes later, just as I've gotten back into bed. My partner had graduated to dumping a glass of water on him by the time we decided this wasn't the right stategy.

We're also trying out FlyByDay's idea... walking around outside with him. So far, he's stayed withing thirty feet of the front door, so I feel reasonably confident I can... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by anotherpanacea at 3:41 PM on February 17, 2008

Another update: Now that he's leash trained, whenever I take him for walks he spends the rest of the day scratching at the door with three times the ferocity and plaintive whines. This is not an improvement.
posted to Ask Metafilter by anotherpanacea at 7:21 AM on February 28, 2008

Thanks for these answers! As you guessed, the DDR fanatic is less picky than I am about the music. A last question: any advice on control pads? Apparently some pads suffer from high lag?
posted to Ask Metafilter by anotherpanacea at 7:15 PM on January 2, 2008

What sorts of philosophy are you reading? Are we talking about Plato, Wittgenstein, or Deleuze? And how do you know you've twisted the meaning? Are you comparing your version to something or someone, or just finding inconsistencies in the text itself?

That said, I've found a tremendous amount of success in a process that goes like this: read, outline, and then select an apparently important passage, which you then try to interpret by asking yourself questions about it,... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by anotherpanacea at 5:41 PM on December 20, 2007

Sorry, I seem to have asked my question incorrectly, because I don't understand how these answers are responsive. I'm looking for information about an apparently prevalent cosmology that involves divine clerks, magistrates, and offices, roughly analogous to mundane bureaucracies, with testing on Confucian principles, paperwork sinecures, and officious elder gods. Is there really no information other than picaresque stories and manga?
posted to Ask Metafilter by anotherpanacea at 10:10 AM on December 17, 2007

'Veiled insult' comes closest, for my money, at least insofar as it will help the student better understand why this isn't a euphemism. However, I think an exact word for this would likely have less explanatory power than a full sentence, just as 'charientism' and 'asteism' tell us nothing without a copy of the OED nearby.

on preview: I'm liking the erudite dis. Eruditis?
posted to Ask Metafilter by anotherpanacea at 6:35 AM on December 13, 2007

Station Hill Press might be interesting for you.
posted to Ask Metafilter by anotherpanacea at 4:30 PM on December 4, 2007

What is the review structure in your organization? A large company may not have the right measures in place to address your concerns without a threat, especially if you don't have direct access to a supervisor who can make demands of HR. However, if you can make your raise request a regular part of your interactions with supervision, they're going to do something eventually.

It doesn't have to be 'Can I have a raise?' every time: work different aspects each month. This... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by anotherpanacea at 10:04 AM on November 29, 2007

Thanks all for your responses. I'm most interested in the arguments made by g-proponents, since the anti-g accounts seem so intuitively obvious. As I suspected, there's a strong correlation between a belief that we live in a functioning meritocracy and the belief in g. Thanks Paladin165, especially, for the phrase: "Life is a general test." The denial of contingency, of statistical anomalies, of gaming and cheating, of social and economic factors, and of luck(!) inherent in that phrase... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by anotherpanacea at 7:06 AM on November 15, 2007

Paladin165: If you're conversant in statistics, you should check out wyzewoman's link, especially the section titled "How to make 2766 independent abilities look like one g factor." An argument of this nature was what I had primarily in mind when posting here.

Your assertion that a correlation between variables should be dispositive with regard to a causal relationship indicates that you're not actually very familiar with statistical argumentation. So consider... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by anotherpanacea at 8:05 AM on November 15, 2007

You should also be wary of a completely open meeting. It sounds like what you want is a political theory reading group, not a metafilter meetup. Rather than organizing via website, you should solicit participation from your friends and colleagues in the program. If the group is successful, other interested readers will hear of it and join up. If you want to use the internet to organize it, think along the lines of evite.

I've had some success with these in the past, but... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by anotherpanacea at 6:55 AM on November 6, 2007

While it doesn't adequately set up a point-counterpoint in the way that you might want for a critical thinking course, another good, accessible introduction to post-race genetic theory is Spencer Wells' Deep Ancestry: Inside the Genographic Project.
posted to Ask Metafilter by anotherpanacea at 6:17 PM on November 5, 2007

I crunched the numbers from ClaudiaCenter's link, and it looks like LRCH is 56% black and 42% white. The testing indicates some achievement gaps, including a small % of mostly white kids doing extremely well.

Anybody have any statistics on the tracking problem? The NCA report makes it look like a small group of rich and mostly white kids are segregated into a 'gifted and talented' program, but that the rest of the school is pretty evenly multiracial. Is there a larger... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by anotherpanacea at 2:07 PM on October 22, 2007

A check is a promise to pay. Don't break your promise because he broke his.
posted to Ask Metafilter by anotherpanacea at 2:00 PM on September 6, 2007

You would enjoy and/or hate Alvin Platinga's mammoth three volume response to this question: Warrant: The Current Debate, Warrant and Proper Function, and Warranted Christian Belief.
posted to Ask Metafilter by anotherpanacea at 2:18 PM on September 3, 2007

Therefore, in order to be saved, one must willfully believe in something that is (by one's own belief system) false?

This does not follow from your assumptions. Properly formed, it would read: "The fact that there is no evidence for a particular sort of proposition is the best reason to believe it. In order to be saved, one must accept as true a proposition that you previously believed was false, and whose acceptance will serve as the only... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by anotherpanacea at 2:24 PM on September 3, 2007

Oh, sorry. It's also important (for the purposes of the argument) to alter your first assumption thusly:

1. Jesus's salvation is given freely to all who accept it.
posted to Ask Metafilter by anotherpanacea at 2:26 PM on September 3, 2007

I read that. But it doesn't include info on getting your old bibliographies into the database.
posted to Ask Metafilter by anotherpanacea at 3:48 PM on September 2, 2007

That Zotero was so tempting. It doesn't seem to sniff out the citations when I dumped them into an entry on my blog.

Bratman, Michael. 1987. Intention, Plans and Practical Reason. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.)
--1999. Faces of Intention: Selected Essays on Intention and Agency (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.)
posted to Ask Metafilter by anotherpanacea at 8:04 AM on September 3, 2007

Nor even the single cite here.
posted to Ask Metafilter by anotherpanacea at 8:10 AM on September 3, 2007

As a longtime fan of Patrick O'Brian, I must insist that 'fair use' be rebranded as 'privateering' or even 'execution of a letter of marque.' I don't think I could bear another copyright argument without this change. This extends to all of you here in this thread and in the MeTa thread, too. Failure to comply will be met with a warning gun across the bows, and further non-compliance will garner a full broadside.

I've nailed my colours to the mast on this, boys. I've got... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by anotherpanacea at 4:09 PM on September 2, 2007

I plan to weed out the most boringly technical of the cases, but this is for a research project assigned to students in a Philosophy of Law course. The goal is for them to identify the issues, research the case law, and write their own 'amicus' brief (sort of a baby-steps version of a law review article) as the culmination of the course.
posted to Ask Metafilter by anotherpanacea at 9:12 AM on July 25, 2007

Yeah, I agree, and almost wrote the same thing in response to you. As I have to read the final product, I plan to apply my own definitions of boring and technical, based mostly on an evaluation of what my students will be able to deal with interestingly.

Thanks for the Medill site. I'll be in touch.
posted to Ask Metafilter by anotherpanacea at 9:21 AM on July 25, 2007

Philosophy of law is about broad strokes principles; legal briefs are hard-nosed pragmatic substantive legal argumentation.

My students are generally very talented: they can handle legal research, and indeed have seemed to relish the chance to interact with legal issues currently pressing the courts. My more open-ended research assignments generally net similar results, and I'm just trying to channel that effort. Their performance in no way... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by anotherpanacea at 11:39 AM on July 27, 2007

I think you're looking for some form of compatibilism. Also, see John Christman's The Myth of Property. I think you will find that Proudhon is ultimately not compatible with libertarianism, though that position is certainly compatible with skepticism about state interference.
posted to Ask Metafilter by anotherpanacea at 1:40 PM on July 24, 2007

Where do I find reliable scalpers?
posted to Ask Metafilter by anotherpanacea at 9:08 AM on June 20, 2007

Oh my. I'm doomed.
posted to Ask Metafilter by anotherpanacea at 9:11 AM on June 20, 2007

Seconding academic regalia: it's expensive, but graduation is fun and it's nice to have all the colors coordinated for alma mater and discipline as you're likely to be one of only a few wearing a non-black robe.
posted to Ask Metafilter by anotherpanacea at 5:48 PM on June 19, 2007

If your research funds are anything like ours, your university is contractually obligated to give them to you every year, regardless of your use the year before. The money is also much more 'yours' than a pooled budget would be. (If this is not the case for you, then disregard.) So if an Aeron chair will help you think harder or work longer hours, don't be afraid to requisition one! (My U has a super deal on nifty office chairs, though: might only cost $300-400.)

Books... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by anotherpanacea at 4:54 AM on June 20, 2007 marked best answer

Dump him.
posted to Ask Metafilter by anotherpanacea at 8:34 AM on June 19, 2007

www.gokgs.com
posted to Ask Metafilter by anotherpanacea at 4:41 PM on June 11, 2007

The key here is to navigate your own situation with as little reference to obligation and principle as possible. Forget about right and wrong, responsibility and just desert, and try to figure out what works: think in terms of strategies, not morality or fairness.

Others have written eloquently about resentment, and they're right. You should try for the money as you would for any, more official scholarship.... Pretend your father serves on the board of a very exclusive... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by anotherpanacea at 9:05 PM on June 1, 2007