I know it's easy to make judgmental statements about homeless people:
Get a job.
They brought it on themselves.
Why should I contribute a quarter to someone's drug habit?
Generalizations don't make for very good arguments in other situations; why should it be any different for the homeless population?
"You must be a basketball player."
"You should model."
"How’s the weather up there? ::Hyuck hyuck::"
Though I read something online saying I’m not allowed to call myself tall unless I find it nearly impossible to find clothing that fits me, at 5 foot, 9 inches I easily surpass the height of many of my friends.
And I endure the tall stereotypes.
It seems the platypus really is God’s little joke.
DNA studies recently found out that the reason the widely-agreed-to-be-mammalian-platypus exhibits characteristics of mammals, birds, and reptiles is, no joke, platypus have DNA structures of mammals, birds, and reptiles.
What is it about music that brings people together and can turn complete strangers into a troupe of singers?
I kid you not. I have seen an entire room of strangers spontaneously break into song and dance.
My brother works for TSA at McCarran Airport in Las Vegas. He called me up today to let me know he got an entire line of passengers to start singing together.
“How?”
We all know the story of antibiotics.
Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin in 1928 and there was much rejoicing.
Well, actually the rejoicing comes a little bit later, because Alexander Fleming didn't actually do anything.
A million years ago, during my undergraduate years, one of my assignments was to watch a surgery (pre-op, intra-op, and post-op) and write about it.
My class mates jumped at the first appendectomies they could find, but I wanted something interesting. I asked around about upcoming events and one nurse failed to let me down.
“There’s a vaginoplasty happening in about an hour.”
Hydrogenation.
