Yesterday, the Arizona Daily Star reported that the University of Arizona is earmarking $12 million to recruit "rising star" professors in the areas of environmental studies and biosciences. Reporter Becky Pallack was first told that the source of funds for that $12 was unknown. Her story was updated today with information from UA spokesperson Johnny …
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If you are a college graduate who needed student loans to get that degree - ever more precious in an economic downturn and a competitive work environment - you should be thanking Ted Kennedy today. If you're a female who got to play sports in schools forced to fund women's athletics with some semblance of …
Life is harried, hurried and overwhelming - at least according to the marketing guys over at Loyola Press. The Jesuit-run publishing house recently launched an 3-minute retreat application for the iPhone and iPod touch to help folks take a break, anywhere, anytime (as long as it isn't while you're driving!) from the concerns and pressures …
Welcome to the weekly Happiness Project meeting! Today I'd like to share some thoughts - and get your input - about definitions of happiness and why we avoid doing things that might make us happy. Both defining the word and knowing what keeps us stuck in our misery-pattern is key if the happiness is the …
I was thinking a lot this weekend about doing the right thing, recalling a conversation I had this summer with a 17-year-old neighbor. I was this young woman's confirmation sponsor and upon discovering that her catechesis was poorly done, I took her out to coffee, the Catechism of the Catholic Church in hand, and tried …
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Real Simple magazine has a piece on why people lie, with analysis of the six types of lies (I think there are way more) and how to avoid them. In a teeny-tiny article side bar, author Jenna McCarthy quotes Bella DePaulo, a visiting professor at UC-Santa Barbara, who studies lying. (Yes, this is where you …
File this under the "and more" part of God Blogging: This weekend was full of STUFF THAT BUGS ME. Maybe you all have had similar experiences, or other pet peeves you want to share - feel free. But this stuff really gets on my nerves: 1. Parents who bring their small children to non-G-rated movies, …
Stumbled across an article this afternoon that sort of goes against the conventional wisdom I referred to in the Happiness Wednesday post about thinking positively. In "Finding Your Inner Loser," John Cloud reports on a new study that shows that thinking positively can actually have the opposite effect by pointing out to people how unhappy …
I'm not trying to commit blasphemy here, but this amazing thing growing in my small backyard garden has had me saying, lately, in good-humor and with a little bit of awe and a heck of a lot of excitement: "I'm like God!" In case you're not sure what this picture is of, it is my …
For a reason unbeknownst to me, I have am now getting a subscription to Wired Magazine. I thought maybe it was a gift from a move-into-the-future friend, but he said no; likewise my husband has no idea who might have gifted me with this. Obviously, the only other answer is that God sent it. When …
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