Posts by giovanni tiso
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A fiend of mine had thyroid cancer in her 20s. She got really sick of people blathering at her about positive thinking -- because the underlying implication was she was to blame for her cancer because she wasn't thinking positively enough.
Society has mostly gone secular but we still seem to have to manufacture ways of thinking that being unhealthy is immoral. Perhaps to suppress the notion that disease strikes mostly at random, which seems to be even harder to process.
I have Barbara Ehrenreich's Smile or You Die: How Positive Thinking Fooled America and the World in my Reading Queue of Hell.
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The Greeks made a reconstruction of a bireme, or was it a trireme? and even modern day elite rowers couldn't even approach the speed and endurance ancient sources treat as routine.
Wow, that's quite impressive nonsense. Is anybody really treating the descriptions of athletic feats in ancient sources as literal, measurable records?
I have learnt the hard way that I HAVE to exercise. If I don't then
Have you considered the possibility that your body has in fact become addicted to your fitness regime? That's a pretty common phenomenon amongst former athletes. I was reading about the post-competitive life of footballers some time ago, and it sounded like a nightmare - what they had to do just so that their body did not fall apart, I mean.
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It's another one of those threads of much learning for some of us. Thanks to everyone who's sharing their experience and knowledge here.
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(Old klutz me posted in wrong thread. Move along.)
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Pregnancy cured my wife's ME (what it was diagnosed as), I think it was because pregnancy is a gradual, unavoidable fitness program.
My head hitting the desk there was a valuable isotonic exercise, for which I thank you.
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you're drawing a long bow if you want to suggest the school is responsible for the country's media issues.
Well, they're either industry leaders or they're not, are they?
But look, I don't want to being endlessly painful - I've even voted for Nicola way back then, and wish her all the best. I was just taking issue with Keith's post because he's accustomed us to slightly more astute media commentary then "train this journalist so she will do better political reporting than the ones we're stuck with".
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New Zealand journalism schools are funded about $10,000 per student and are often staffed by people out of touch with the media environment. Columbia is around $70,000 and is staffed by some of the brightest minds in journalism. The sort of people Nicola will be studying (and "networking") with are likely to become industry leaders. These benefits warrant the effort to get there. It's not about foreign being better - it's about resources and quality.
See, if that is true than I must assume that the industry is being currently led by these bright minds. And if it's Columbia graduates that made the American media what they are today, shouldn't we be a little wary of making the equation good school = better journalism? As many have argued on this blog MANY times, the problem with New Zealand journalism is not the lack of good journalists. It's its relentless corporatisation, it's the systematic sacrifice of good reporting and commentary for the (occasionally misguided) sake of commercial imperatives. You won't change it by going to study in the country that came up with this brilliant system.
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I think you'll find that about every second person on PAS is a left-handed tattooed sleep-disordered chronically-ill technical writer with a philosophy degree.
Crap... I tick a worrying amount of those!
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I met one who recommended taking blood out of your system and then re inejecting it X hours later
Autohaemotransfusion? It's a form of doping so I wouldn't be surprised if it did in fact boost your performance and decrease your fatigue levels.
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In some academic circles, they do not refer to it as The News but rather as The Olds
Academia, or as I like to call it "the land that wit forgot".