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Reblog: Do we need trigger warnings on classic literature?
Originally posted on Laura Droege's blog:Irony: putting a trigger warning on a post about trigger warnings. Irony aside, it’s only fair to give a warning that I’ll mention a particular episode of my...
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Why I Love Statistics
I am loving my studies. It’s so much fun. I get to play games with numbers, call it academia(!) and learn something that will be such a useful, practical tool. Today I have been rolling virtual dice...
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Gobbledegook
‘…for each x in the range of the random variable X, we have p(x) = P(X = x) … an upper-case letter… is used for the label of a random variable, while the corresponding lower-case letter (x) is used as...
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Daddy!
Happy New Year! I’d like to begin 2015 with several ‘best of’s from 2014. Best blog post of 2014: The Visit This post has stayed with me ever since I read it nearly a year ago. Every time I think of it...
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EMDR, LENT, TRAINING
I’ve had to take a break from my studies to focus on getting well. It was the right decision, but sometimes, if I compare myself to the world, I can’t help but see all that I missed. My peers went to...
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Unlearned and Ignorant
‘…when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and had perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marveled. They recognized that they had been with Jesus. Seeing the man who was healed...
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Cathy, Come Home
One of my favourite scenes of any novel that I have ever read comes from Wuthering Heights, that dark, brooding tale of obsession and death (why anyone would think it’s romantic is beyond me but that’s...
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In Humility
Our sanctification [does] not depend upon changing our works. Instead, it [depends] on doing that for God’s sake which we commonly do for our own. The Practice of the Presence of God ~ Brother Lawrence...
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Stoopid is Stoopid Does
I hate this illness. First I miss years of school because of it and now as I begin studying (again) at the age of 39, I find it’s taken me about five goes to get right something I would otherwise think...
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A Mathemagical Puzzle
If the settling-down phenomenon underpins the definition of probability, why is it that the universe tends towards chaos? You know, as in entropy: a gradual decline into disorder (googled definition)....
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