On What's Your Most Played Song?
"Slow Show," The National with 73, followed by "In the Aeroplane Over the Sea," Neutral Milk Hotel! Not surprised.
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On 'The Secret Circle': Teen Witches In ZOMG Love
@tigolbitties IT IS TERRIBLE. And not in an amusing way. It is approximately 20% review of things that happened in the previous books, 30% reused plot points treated as though they've never happened before, and 50% coma-inducing descriptions of cave art.
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On Atheists Should Be More Superstitious If They Want People To Like Them Better
My husband was raised Lutheran, while I was raised basically heathen. Because religion is a big deal for his family, we were married by a Lutheran pastor, who had us do premarriage counseling during which one point of discussion was whether we'd raise our kids in the church. I was surprised indeed to hear my husband say he wanted to bring kids to church (he never goes now), and when I asked why, he said, "How will they learn morality if we don't take them?" I pointed out that I'd been to a church service approximately eight times in my life and wasn't a raging sociopath, because my parents raised me to think about how our actions affect those around us, and it was a crazy revelation even to him -- very secular, very open to non-religious viewpoints, and marrying an atheist -- that one could get morality outside of religion.
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On 'Clan Of The Cave Bear': Neanderthal Fan Fic
Because I am an anthropologist, I actually have an answer on the Neandertal names! This was written at a time when one fairly active theory was that Neandertals did not have the throat anatomy to produce the full range of modern human vocal sounds. Auel ran with that, but posited that they had the mental capacity for full language, hence their gutteral sounds but fluent sign language.