Every time I hear Matt Damon’s name I always think of how he was portrayed in South Park and I feel compelled to say his name that way. I always knew he was really intelligent and that he stood up for really good causes but I couldn’t stop saying his name like that. This video [...]
Too Wild — Love Inks Did you ever stop to think that every single one of your ancestors had to survive long enough to reproduce? Every single one going back to the beginning of life almost four billion years ago? Abstruse Goose has a testament to this in webcomic form. Here’s part of it. [...]
I study and work in epidemiology and it’s really bad for small talk. When people ask me what I do sometimes I answer, “medical research” just to dull the blow. When I do say epidemiology people either change the subject because they have no idea what epidemiology is, or they change the subject because they [...]
Helplessness Blues — Fleet Foxes Monbiot has a short article up on why Tea Partiers in the US continue to vote against their own interests: There are two ways of cutting a deficit: raising taxes or reducing spending. Raising taxes means taking money from the rich. Cutting spending means taking money from the poor. [...]
August and September are going to be extremely busy months for me so I might start posting a little less often–maybe 3 times a week instead of 5, or less if I’m really busy. Once my thesis is done I’ll begin posting five days a week again. It’s too nice outside these days to be [...]
I couldn’t decide which to post out of these two so I’m posting both. The first is Song of Myself by Walt Whitman. I love the guy’s who reads it although I’d hoped to find someone who was a bit more upbeat for this particular poem. The second video is a conversation between philosopher Peter [...]
I am going to take this opportunity to come clean on a problem that has infiltrated and affected every aspect of my life. The truth is that I have an insidious addiction. Like all addictions, it started with a gateway. Once addicted, I have changed my habits. I have started hanging around in sketchy places; [...]
One day, people are going to wake up and, while appearing exactly the same, the world will be totally different. Everyone will go to work the same way they did the day before. Buses, planes and train will come and go on schedule. The moon will be rising somewhere in the world. But everything will [...]
Why do 70 dead in Norway rank higher than tens of thousands in Somalia? That’s the title of a post written by Tom Paulson (who is Norwegian American) at Humanosphere. Before anyone gets up in arms, his point isn’t that what happened in Norway isn’t a big deal just that it’s worth asking ourselves: Why [...]
Midnight City–M83 I wanted to write about this post about compulsory vaccinations last week and then forgot about it. Luckily, a rebuttal popped up today so I can present two sides of the same coin. David Roepik at Big Think makes the case for compulsory vaccintions: What does society do when one person’s behavior [...]
