Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Sunday, November 23, 2008
For my next test, I tried not just my blog's front page, but monthly archive pages. So far this year, my blog was categorized as ISTJ for every month except August, which was rated INTJ, probably because of this post, which is much longer than my typical post and currently still on my blog's front page, apparently overwhelming all the short ISTJ-rated posts and producing an INTJ-rated front page. In 2007, my blog was rated INTJ in six months and ISTJ in six months. I don't know what to make of these results.
My wife's (anonymous) blog? ISTP. MR? INTJ. Brian Ulrich? INTP. My math dept. website? ISTJ. One of my math papers (turned into HTML by Google)? INTP.
Monday, November 17, 2008
Saturday, November 15, 2008
They looked at the effects of feeding pregnant rats a high fat diet for two weeks compared with a balanced diet containing a moderate amount of fat. The researchers found that rat pups born to mothers who consumed the high fat diet, even after the diet had been removed at birth, ate more, weighed more throughout life, and began puberty earlier than those born to mothers who ate a balanced diet for the same two week period. They also had higher levels of triglycerides in the blood at birth and as adults and greater production of brain peptides that stimulate eating and weight gain.
Friday, November 14, 2008
Words fail me.
For example, Matthew Amway of Washington State University and his colleagues found that exposing pregnant rats to a chemical for killing fungus disrupted the epigenetic marks in the sperm of male embryos. The embryos developed into adult rats that suffered from defective sperm and other disorders, like cancer. The males passed down their altered epigenetic marks to their own offspring, which passed them down to yet another generation.
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Friday, November 07, 2008
Obama will call on citizens of all ages to serve America, by developing a plan to require 50 hours of community service in middle school and high school and 100 hours of community service in college every year.At least I can hope "require" doesn't really mean "require."
Update: The website has been updated. "Require" has changed to "set a goal."