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As of right now, in order for any medical professional to perform an HIV test, a consent form must be signed, either by the patient, or a proxy for the patient.  Read More »

ProgressiveU has exposed me to an agglomeration of new ideas and independent thinkers. I am most struck, however, by the bizarre combination of ideas many bloggers have; combinations I never before thought possible or even logical. People daily defy my stereotypes. For example, I often categorize people and ideas in political terms because that is easiest for me. But ProU bloggers just don't allow that. One person might hold some sort of drastically conservative idea and at the same time hold another idea which I would consider radically liberal. It's made me wonder exactly how and why we humans arrive at the beliefs and convictions which we do.  Read More »

I hope... that the amount of hate mail that I get for this is kept to either zero or a nice minimum. So here it is, if you're sensitive about the topic of religion or you think that your God or faith will be offended, do not read on. I honestly don't even think that it is that bad but hey, why chance it right?  Read More »

I called one of my long time friends the other day to catch up on life. I've been teaching English in Korea for the last seven months and it'd been a while since we were able to have a few moments to sit down and gossip. Before I left for Korea she had asked me what language they speak here; it was one of those situations where I rubbed my eyes and blinked a few times in astonishment.  Read More »

I understand we are all sloths from time to time but there should be no excuse for ignorance of basic grammar. The grammar rules that I speak of are the most obvious and of first grade level.

Lack of capitalization of the first letter at the beginning of sentences; lack of periods to end sentences, in other words, run-on sentences; shortcut words, e.g. “u” instead of “you.”  Read More »

Can we really know anything?

Humans are inherently paradoxical and contradictory creatures, and can never completely be in the right or wrong, be completely assured in the total truth of a bit of information or an opinion. Accepting the impossibility of perfect reason is actually quite liberating...  Read More »

So there has been a fairly recent phenomenon on the Internet that I have used over and over again for school. Wikipedia always seems to have the answers that I need. Sometimes I go straight to Wikipedia to search for what I want, other times I go to Google to search and Wikipedia is in the top two or three results. It is almost like magic.  Read More »

Hi,
Im doig some research on splenda and honestly want to know what others think after you hear what i found, In comparison to what the makers of splenda are saying.  Read More »