Way back on May 27th, Planet Money ran a story that I found was a particularly good example of another kind of misuse of human interest in logical discourse. The story in question, from their podcast entitled Listen to Your Parents, is a two minute segment wherein they talk to some random guy who is [...]
I haven’t had enough time sitting at my computer this past week to actually sit down and generate much content (or catch up on the blogs or comics I read, or really use my computer much at all) this week, but I have seen quite a few movies recently and I thought I might as [...]
A while back, I found myself having a discussion with a friend about how much good it actually does to be a vegetarian. That is to say that if your goal as a vegetarian is to reduce the total amount of meat consumed for whatever reason, how much does opting out of the consumption of [...]
Physical chemistry Ph.D. student at UC Berkeley and all around curious guy.