Claire Conger

“I don’t have time to be married!” wails Julie in Julie and Julia, a movie about Julia Child and devote Julie Powell. What Julie really should have cried, was “I don’t have time to work all day at my stupid government job!”

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Have you ever had someone say that you were wasting your talent? Or the reverse, that you must not have genius because your work is so, well, popular?

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This morning, NPR science writer Joe Palca called creationism a “theory” and Darwin’s ideas “notions.” Now I think he’s got that backwards! (Darwin, Britain’s Hero, Is Still Controversial in U.S.)

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I happened to be halfway through Richard Dawkins’s The God Delusion when I went to a dinner party. I was sitting happily on a bench in some cool people’s garden and getting pine sap on my $98 silk skirt, while trying to make conversation like I know what I’m saying. I offered “I think people who believe in God are idiots.”

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Much has been made lately of Chinese and Japanese doing better than Americans on IQ tests. Specifically, they score better on the abstract/spacial thinking and not quite as well on verbal thinking, for a net higher average IQ.

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