There's nothing quite like reading a good downer while sitting by the fire on Christmas morning. Sorry about that, folks. I hope you've at least had a chance to hit the egg nog today, so this post won't be too depressing. But this is kinda poignant, so I thought I'd share. Yesterday, I was having lunch with some of the Russians, Indians, and Ethiopians in my lab. The discussion came up about the American trait of secretly dreading Christmas, and what caused it. Oh, we do give it a huge amount of... read more
