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Google’s hiring philosophy involves always raising the bar. They strive to find people who are better and smarter than the ones already working there, so that the average level of intelligence and ability across Google employees actually increases over time. This should be contrasted against a more traditional model where the smartest people start the [...]

America has abstained from interference in the concerns of others, even when conflict has been for principles to which she clings as to the last vital drop that visits the heart. She goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She well knows that by once enlisting under other banners than her own, were [...]

For a long time now I have heard people talk about global warming as some ominous event that’s looming in our near future. As political agendas usually do, this seemed partly plausible at first. When all of these people and the media are talking about something that seems possible, the general opinion of the population [...]

There has been more talk lately about bringing creationism into the science classroom, to be taught alongside evolution as a supposed “alternate theory”, but there is a major problem with this proposal; namely that creationism is not a scientific theory at all. I leave the details to Richard Dawkins and Jerry Coyne. Findings from a [...]

Admittedly I wasn’t clever enough to come up with the title, but rather I’m just mirroring it from the source: Noah Diamond: Don’t Fear The Reefer. Noah gives a well-written overview of the history and current state of marijuana in the US. I think it’s high time (!) we look at our laws and make [...]

I previously discussed the necessity of change and now I’d like to move on to the more pertinent and controversial question: the plausibility of change. If we the people can agree that the current state of the government is an unfavorable one, we not only have the power to make a change, but are implored [...]

I am interested to know how many other people out there believe that there is something wrong with the current United States government. I’m not necessarily looking for positions on specific issues, but rather would just like to know roughly what proportion of the people think something is wrong. Sadly, my guess is that most [...]

I was sickened when I learned of another magnitude 8.7 earthquake that occured off the coast of Indonesia. Obviously this is a great tragedy, but my sickness didn’t come about in response to nature’s actions, but rather in response to the people in this country if not the rest of the West. I learned of [...]

Lately I have felt stifled with reference to my perceived limits on posting to this site. I can’t pin it down to any one factor, but there are a number of reasons why I have felt mitigated, censoring not only the content of the posts I do make, but the topics on which I post. [...]

A Single Damning Demonstration It’s a refreshing time when someone held in high regard challenges the status quo, spilling fresh blood onto the battlefield of academia. It reminds us that we are human; imperfect, fragile, mortal. It is a sad state of affairs when a dissenter is immediately ridiculed, shamed, and ostracized without a shed [...]