by podblack on January 14, 2010
I’ve written before at length why I don’t drink alcohol, on a post called “My Not Drinking Alcohol Is Not Your Problem“. One of the things that I probably didn’t emphasise enough was that a contributing factor to not drinking was discovering how many of my high-school students talked about being pressured to drink alcohol. [...]
by podblack on September 12, 2009
Funny about the timing of this post – I had someone ask me about this over dinner at Dragon*Con on the last night, and I think I surprised them with how I trotted out my answer. It’s because I had an email written about it quite some time ago, which I’ll now publish here. Today, [...]
by podblack on July 9, 2008
Ah, research, I love it. Like today’s inbox – if you’re a teen girl who is on the internet too much and drink alcohol, it adversely influences your health! Or maybe you’d like to check out some punk-rock robots who pogo for science? “The robot brain, for want of a better word, was played lots [...]