Of course! I found the idea of "dropping the second arrow" to be really helpful, if you're interested in some reading. I think it's a Buddhist concept?

Exactly this. It isn't saying "don't be sad that your car will someday not be here." Instead, it's that the sadness you experience will be easier to deal with rather than the sadness caused by the loss AND clinging to what you no longer have.

Love it. When I taught high school I had my students draw the C'thulhu figurine from the description in the story. Great work.

To add to the differences in study:

Undergraduate, for the most part, teachers you how to study and recognize good sources, take information from those sources, and then apply it. Most of undergrad is learning higher level ideas and working with them.

Graduate school's main difference is you are critiquing experts rather than just understanding what they say. It's often a lot more reading, think around 100 pages per class per week. You're expected to skim material and be able to act as an expert, criticizing the work and applying it to what you are learning to do.

What I can think of:

There are some genetic diseases where if you are a homozygote, it is a guarantee stillbirth. Cats with the bobcat tail, for example, are heterozygotes for a disorder which would have caused them to be stillbirths had they been homogeneous for it.

Coming in here late, but here's what they're saying:

Ideas of gender arose from sex differences in the past. There COULD be a natural difference in how those sexes act, but because we live in a world that is already constantly defining and redefining gender roles from a cultural perspective, you are very unlikely to find it. It's like talking about "true human nature". You will never find what that means outside of the context of the world today because every human alive is influenced by countless generations of culture that have shaped how they see the very idea of "human being".

They aren't saying sex plays absolutely no part in how one feels they should express their gender, they are saying it is a pointless question that can't be answered at the end of the day.

LINGA

Didn't need to be human contact. The main transmission was through blood. IE, flees.

This feels... outdated? It wasn't rats, it was fleas, we even know the mechanisms through which it spread.

- Fleas bite diseased humans. The bacteria reproduce in their salivary glands to the point at which it clogs their proboscis. When they bite another human, they "sneeze" and release all of that bacteria into the blood.

- Fleas are temperature sensitive. When a person died and went cold, they moved to a new host. When the host's temperature became too high, they likewise migrated to new hosts.

I'm pulling this from an undergraduate degree a decade ago, which wasn't exactly teaching us cutting edge discoveries when it came to this. This feels like saying that some are beginning to believe fat isn't that bad for you in your diet. It's already established science, pop culture hasn't caught up.

Gay horror classic, right here.

Great story! They looked gorgeous.

Absolutely, I just didn't want a bunch "well but he was pretty good" comments.

Nah, listen to some BB King or some shit.

Recording blues songs he didn't even write and putting his name on it while hating the very group of people who wrote those songs.

It's obscene how many classic blues tracks are difficult to find because this asshole did an okay cover of it.

"Can't wait to record some blues standards that are over a century old and put my name on it."