Cynthia’s Interests

A clam was found off the coast of Iceland and researchers counted the rings on the shell and discovered it was 405 years old.

I found this at Angry Bear. This is an interesting site.

If a country’s morality is based upon the number of live births to unwed mothers, then it appears Sweden is the least moral country in the world followed by France, Denmark and the UK.

The first woman of color astronaut to travel to space on the 1992 Shuttle Endeavor flight was named "Woman of the World".

I couldn’t agree more.

Richard Dawkins 

We who doubt that "theology" is a subject at all, or who compare it with the study of leprechauns, are eagerly hoping to be proved wrong. Of course, university departments of theology house many excellent scholars of history, linguistics, literature, ecclesiastical art and music, archaeology, psychology, anthropology, sociology, iconology, and other worthwhile and important subjects. These academics would be welcomed into appropriate departments elsewhere in the university. But as for theology itself, defined as "the organised body of knowledge dealing with the nature, attributes, and governance of God", a positive case now needs to be made that it has any real content at all, and that it has any place in today’s universities.

I’ve been spending a lot of time at a blog called the Assault on Black Folk’s sanity (AOBFS) at the expense of my primary blog. I was invited to be a contributor, but do to irreconcilable differences, this relationship was terminated. A lot has happened in my absence.

I went to three states in the South to visit relatives. The first place was Houston, TX; the second was a little town down the Bayous of Louisiana, and the third was a city in central Mississippi. Although it is said that Mississippi is one the poorest States in America, poor Black people in many parts of Louisiana and Houston live in deplorable conditions (third world) that I haven’t encountered in Mississippi, or Illinois. I’ve often told friends about Louisiana and told them that they should really consider visiting this place because no matter how bad I tell you it is, things are worst than what you can imagine.

Anyway, while in Louisiana, I asked my cousins how could they vote William Jefferson back into office again after he was caught red handed with cold cash? To my surprised, they told me, he was 1) framed, and 2) I work at a school that also keeps working cash in the freezer in a plastic bag. She said it’s so hot down here that this is the best way to keep cash on hand. After thinking about this for a second, I wondered why the media left this little detail out. No wonder the cops looked in the freezer, they already knew if you have cash on hand in a place as hot as Louisiana, you will store it in the freezer. This just goes to show, you can’t trust everything the media reports because they often omit little details when they want to discredit a Black person.

Next, while visiting my cousins in Mississippi, I asked them, with so many Black people living in the South, how could Mississippi be a Red State? One of them told me that I voted for the Democrats, but my husband voted Republican. Once he came into the polling place his boss followed him in to observe whether he would go to the Democrat or the Republican line. I informed them, you guys do realize this is illegal. Their response was, we are not in Chicago, we are in Mississippi and these people will fire you if you don’t vote the way they want you to. Although we suppose to have the Civil Rights Acts of 1964, which should have given us some rights, in certain places like Jena, LA, and MS, these rights are illusive.

Lastly, since I’ve graduated with my PhD, I was working as a postdoc in the lab where I received my degree until I found more permanent and suitable employment.  I’ve finally found a job that I can live with.

Mission Miracle, a wonderful gift to humanity from Venezuela and Cuba

Mission Miracle, the three-year old Venezuelan-Cuban anti-blindness program initially for Latin America and the Caribbean, has already restored the sight of about 700,000 people from 30 countries and aims to restore the sight of about 6,000,000 blind people in the region by 2015.

The services that Mission Miracle offers to its patients are free.

You scored as a Scientific Atheist. These guys rule. I’m not one of them myself, although I play one online. They know the rules of debate, the Laws of Thermodynamics, and can explain evolution in fifty words or less. More concerned with how things ARE than how they should be, these are the people who will bring us into the future.

You scored as Existentialism,

Your life is guided by the concept of Existentialism:You choose the meaning and purpose of your life.

“Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.”

“It is up to you to give [life] a meaning.”
—Jean-Paul Sartre

“It is man’s natural sickness to believe that he possesses the Truth.”

—Blaise Pascal

Yoo-hoo, I finally did it baby!

Today I defended my thesis and I am now Dr. Cynthia Daniels. The title of my thesis was Developing and Characterization of Bioadsorbents for Extracorporeal Blood Purification.

I want to take this time to thank everyone for their well wishes…

There is something about this case that just doesn’t make sense. I don’t believe those guys were innocent. I think a deal was made. You have three rich White men who were allegedly falsely accused by a Black woman and the prosecutor allegedly was reckless in the way he handled the case, and yet, the alleged innocent rich White victims didn’t bother to sue their Black accuser or the attorneys handling her case. What part of the country did this take place in? I don’t think so! You have a prestigious school whose name has been tarnished and the monies they lost for suspending the Lacrosse team pending DNA results, and they didn’t sue either. I don’t think so!

I believe people were paid off including the Black woman and the lawyers (period) to simply make this case go away. Lastly, where is the Black woman? I bet sister girl is a rich woman right about now and she is enjoying the spoils that were generated from the indiscretions of those young men.