A petition to UCDavis to support their grad student--and my friend--Isabel Call's request for her student health insurance pay for her MD's recommended treatment for her rare cancer.http://www.change.org/petitions/chief-financial-officer-university-of-california-advocate-on-isabel-call-s-behalf-and-consider-her-appeal-for-pbrt

http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2012/05/17/152913171/the-essence-of-science-explained-in-63-


A video clip of Richard Feymann on Robert Krulwich's science blog.  Don't neglect to read the excellent poem by Wislawa Szymborska below the video.

What would it mean to be disoccidented?

DI DUNIA INI, ADA BANYAK WARUNG

Apple slices

in coarse sea salt.

Sardines

in bitter chocolate.

An avocado shake.

What savor would these have

taken at a food stall

of bamboo

and blue plastic tarp

at the corner

of Jalan Kaliurang

and Jalan Yacaranda?

SORE DI MALIOBORO

SORE DI MALIOBORO

Orang-orang, banyak warna.
Abu-abu, kehujanan.
Mantel-mantel, kecil di bawa.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BH9_5_J-6U

GRATEFUL DEAD

Message to their Creator from those suffering eternal torment in Hell:  Hey thanks for the free will.

LOOKS LIKE PAUL KRUGMAN KNOWS HIS BIBLE

If I were given to trawling through the Bible to find passages that support my notions of the good and true, I might light on this bit from Genesis:

 Let Pharaoh do this, and let him appoint officers over the land, and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt in the seven plenteous years.

³⁵ And let them gather all the food of those good years that come, and lay up corn under the hand of Pharaoh, and let them keep food in the cities.

³⁶ And that food shall be for store to the land against the seven years of famine, which shall be in the land of Egypt; that the land perish not through the famine.   

Sounds pretty Keynsian, doesn't it?  Pharaoh didn't say I'll just take enough to keep me and my family in beans and rice.  And you guys keep all the rest and enjoy it, cuz, hey, it's yours.  How would that have worked out?