So, the July jobs report came out. I was curious as to how the different news agencies were covering it. Amazing the different spin they put on it. Can you match the quote to the news outlet? Economy’s job engine revved up in July U.S. Added 163,000 Jobs in July; Jobless Rate Ticked Up Jobless [...]
In the aftermath of the events in Aurora, Colorado the old arguments about gun control are starting to bubble to the surface again. How this is even an argument baffles me. I work under the assumption that everyone, extremists from both sides of the spectrum, agree that people getting killed is a bad thing. The anti-gun control arguments [...]
In 142 days I will be getting married. While it happens to be that my choice of a partner is a woman, I am not marrying Tiffany because she is a woman. There are approximately 3.375 billion woman out there that I am not marrying. I am marrying Tiffany because I love her and want to spend my [...]
From a phishing message I got in my email today: Hi gothmog, You have blocked your Facebook account. You can reopen your account at any moment by logging into Facebook using your old login email address and password. After that you will be able to exploit the site as usual. Kind regards, The Facebook Team [...]
7 out of 10 Americans believe the health care law is unconstitutional. hmm. 7 out of 10 Americans believe the health care law is unconstitutional. This quote was in an article on Morning Edition as I was driving in to work this morning. The first thing that came to my mind when I heard this [...]
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In my very occasional series of posts where I give ideas for PhD thesis topics (see the all time hit the students are fighting over, Fractal dimension as measurement of quality) I give you another path to your doctorate. That is if you are in the Operations Research field. Sorry biologists. I am sure we all [...]
I love museums. From a very young age my parents brought me to museums and I have very fond (if vague) memories of visiting the Peabody Museum of Natural History staring up at huge dinosaur skeletons. Being close enough to New York, I was really luck to have the American Museum of Natural History, the Bronx Zoo, [...]
February 13, 2012 – 2:36 pm
Louis Menand’s article, Live and Learn – why we have college is great and you should read the whole article, but I wanted to point out one paragraph that struck me as a defender of the liberal arts education. The most interesting finding is that students majoring in liberal-arts fields—sciences, social sciences, and arts and [...]
February 13, 2012 – 8:38 am
Some might think that I have taken this position just to confuse people. Jeremy, rabid proponent of free speech, lover of the Supreme Court, obviously would be in favor of a bill requiring that all court cases be televised. I think I suprised people a bit. The bill, Senate bill 1945, proposes amending Chapter 45 [...]
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February 9, 2012 – 9:20 am
Bernard of Chartres used to say that we are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, so that we can see more than they, and things at a greater distance, not by virtue of any sharpness of sight on our part, or any physical distinction, but because we are carried high and raised up by [...]
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