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Whistler wrote:and now I'm really curious about environmental psychology!

Terry Tempest Williams is one of the faculty at the U's environmental humanities program. I bet if someone (student, researcher) were interested in the social science aspect of the environment (built or natural) there'd be opportunities ripe for cross-pollination.

I know that anxiety and depression are more common in large metropolitan environments. It'd be interesting to suss out cause and effect (in fact I think I remember skimming an article on this earlier this year, but got distracted).

http://theboard.byu.edu/questions/79800/

Harry Potter counterfactuals FTW!

Asian ward. Very informative, but I attended an Asian ward once while in Provo and sacrament meeting was in Mandarin. So, I don't know what I attended or what happened to it? Weird stuff. Maybe there is a specifically Chinese ward and also an Asian ward?

mic0 wrote:Asian ward. Very informative, but I attended an Asian ward once while in Provo and sacrament meeting was in Mandarin. So, I don't know what I attended or what happened to it? Weird stuff. Maybe there is a specifically Chinese ward and also an Asian ward?

Maybe they change policies on that depending on who's the bishop at the time or the overall makeup of the membership. If there were tons of Mandarins at one time it would make sense.

I always feel bummed that I'm not in Provo for these types of questions because I'd love to attend wards like this and do "in-person" research.

On a related note, I attended a French Catholic mass on my mission. First time ever going to Mass. It was awesome.

Mass is really interesting, that's awesome you got to attend it! Did you get a blessing from the priest? I found that pretty interesting, though I was 18 and awkward about it.

Yeah, it would make sense to change the ward as the population changes, could be.

I don't thiiiiiiink I got a blessing from the priest...I had no idea what was going on since I could only catch about every 2 out of 3 words at the time haha. I took communion though. It was really interesting...I definitely got a few Gospel insights, truths I think the Catholic church managed to hold on to over the years. I also understood the people in the town a lot better: I found the Mass interesting because I knew a fair bit about different religions already, but I could see if you'd just grown up getting dragged there every Sunday without much more explaination, it would be pretty easy to stop going and not know a whole ton about religion. Which described 95% of the people I talked to in that town.

mic0 wrote:Asian ward. Very informative, but I attended an Asian ward once while in Provo and sacrament meeting was in Mandarin. So, I don't know what I attended or what happened to it? Weird stuff. Maybe there is a specifically Chinese ward and also an Asian ward?

The Edgemont 22nd Ward is a Chinese ward that meets in a building off of Timpview Drive. (My aunt and uncle attend another ward in that building and when I visited once for a baby blessing there were Chinese hymnals in the pews, which were fun to look through.) According to LDS Maps, there's also a Japanese ward in the Grandview Stake. It sounds like the BYU Asian ward is separate from those two units and is just made up of BYU students. I imagine that Mandarin or Japanese-speaking BYU students could choose to attend the Chinese ward or the Japanese ward, but they might prefer being in a student ward for social or logistical reasons.

Ooooh, yes, I think the one I went to was off Timpview Dr. Interesting stuff!

http://theboard.byu.edu/questions/79780/

Wodehouse quality right there. #applause

http://theboard.byu.edu/questions/79917/

Fantastic work on the "Wheels on the Bus" song, all.

Alternate version of the Voldemort verse:
The Voldemorts on the bus go come to die, come to die, come to die.
The Voldemorts on the bus go come to die all through the town.

Actually, I think I've got a few more of these:

The Holmes on the bus goes elementr'y, elementr'y, elementr'y.
The Holmes on the bus goes elementr'y all through the town.

The R2 units on the bus go whirr beep boop, whirr beep boop, whirr beep boop.
The R2 units on the bus go whirr beep boop all through the town.

The Gollum on the bus goes my precious! My precious! My precious!
The Gollum on the bus goes my precious! All through the town.

The TARDIS on the bus goes ooh-ee-ooh, ooh-ee-ooh, ooh-ee-ooh.
The TARDIS on the bus goes ooh-ee-ooh all through the town.

The Doctors on the bus go allons-y! Allons-y! Allons-y!
The Doctors on the bus go allons-y! All through the town.
(alternatively)
The Doctors on the bus go they are cool, they are cool, they are cool.
The Doctors on the bus go they are cool all through the town.

I have made some alternate verses of other songs. For a while I was thinking of ones for "what do you do with a drunken sailor?"

what do you do with a cranky (crying/poopy/happy) baby? x3 early in the morning (or in the afternoon/evening)

-fill her with milk until she's sleepy
-throw her in the crib with the teething ring
-change her in to a clean diaper
(since the verse doesn't have to rhyme pretty much anything goes)

That song was one of my dad's favorites to write new verses to, Whistler.

http://theboard.byu.edu/questions/79941/

I don't know who Terrible Scientist is, but I sincerely hope we get to hear more from him/her/it/them.

Whistler wrote:I have made some alternate verses of other songs. For a while I was thinking of ones for "what do you do with a drunken sailor?"

what do you do with a cranky (crying/poopy/happy) baby? x3 early in the morning (or in the afternoon/evening)

-fill her with milk until she's sleepy
-throw her in the crib with the teething ring
-change her in to a clean diaper
(since the verse doesn't have to rhyme pretty much anything goes)

No way. I sing this to B.A.B.Y., but my version goes:

What do you do with a drunken baby (X3) early in the morning
Hide her away because it's shameful (X3) to have a drunk ba-by

And the chorus is:
Yo ho, my baby's drunk, yes
Yo ho, my baby's wasted
Yo ho, my baby's plastered
How could this have happened?

Put a little rum into her bottle
Put a little whiskey in her bottle
Put a little vodka on her bottle
I guess it might be my fault

Repeat the chorus, with various other synonyms for drunk (snockered, hammered, etc.) as desired.

GA, I like your parenting style.

GA, that made me laugh!

79949 reminds me of the case of Ralph Steinman.

It was unclear how Steinman had treated his own pancreatic cancer -- a notoriously deadly form of the disease. The development of treatments from research can take many years. Former student Michel Nussenzweig said Steinman's discovery was only now reaching that stage after a particular wait.

But I can't help suspect it helps to be a researcher of the cancer which you have. You don't have to worry as much about not getting fast-tracked into your own study. Might tarnish double blindness though (but if it prolongs your life, who's going to complain much about that?).

http://theboard.byu.edu/questions/79795/

pigeons and women in Islam. So good. SO GOOD.

Congrats to CPM on 1000 answers (and many, many more fires put out/help on others' answers)! :-)