Carnivalia, and an open thread

While I'm announcing a few carnivals, I'll remind all of you readers in West Central Minnesota that there will be a Drinking Liberally tonight at 6:00, in Old #1 on Atlantic Avenue in Morris.

Otherwise, for those of you trapped in the virtual world…

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We faculty at UMM are about to go off to a Campus Assembly meeting, which is always good for making one thirsty. Fortunately, there's a Drinking Liberally scheduled for tonight, at 6:00, at Old #1—it would be a great idea if we all stopped in for a little refreshment and conversation afterwards.…

Open thread...okay, well, over at my blog, I snark about a recent flap in which right-wing Christians are blowing a gasket because a new Christian film has been hit with the dreaded ... gasp!... PG rating!

From the "Apropos of Nothing" file:

The Seed Magazine sidebar just caught my eye, and in particular a link entitled, Why a Large Hadron Collider? I can't begin to describe the mental images that were thus evoked, which ended abruptly when I realized that my brain had somehow transposed the "d" and the "r" in "Hadron."

Then I saw the next link: How do Brains Filter Data?
I know how mine does, thank you. This somehow brings to mind the old definition of "intellectual": A person who can hear the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger.

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