As anyone who has delved mildly into scientific research will soon realize, there are a myriad of problems inherent within publishing one’s research. Despite our society’s focus on STEM, the world is surprisingly apathetic to a scientist’s research unless it has been published in a well known paper. To a certain extent, this approach to … More My Pet Peeves with Scientific Research
I find that too many presidential candidates have a successful business or two as the main selling point on their resume. Being able to successfully run a business is not the same as being able to successfully run a country.
Let me explain. … More Being a Successful “Businessman” Doesn’t Mean You’re Fit to be President
I hate scams. Whether it’s an email from your local Nigerian prince or just Wall Street (*cough the housing bubble in 2006), I hate the fact that someone is profiting from money that people probably need, and in 2016 what scammers seem to like to use are websites such as Kickstarter and IndieGoGo to trick … More A Ramble on Ethics: Kickstarter and IndieGoGo
Our oceans are in serious trouble. From melting polar ice caps to turtle cancer, Earth’s water isn’t doing too well, and it’s time we changed that. … More Oceans and Climate Change
With the recent controversy regarding the FBI and its attempts to force companies into providing them a way to bypass security features, I wanted to talk about encryption for a bit. I think we can all agree that national security is important. Events such as 9/11 has shown us what can happen when national security … More A Ramble on Ethics: Encryption and the FBI
Fountain. One may think of Rome’s Fontana di Trevi or even the ceramic fountain in the local shopping center where shoppers wish upon with pennies. Certainly, one does not think of a urinal, a white porcelain bowl into which men urinate. Which Fountain is. It also happens to be art. Fountain heaved the art world. … More Seeing Beyond the Obvious
I’ve recently finished two great books about the 2008 financial crisis: Tim Geithner’s Stress Test and Ben Bernanke’s The Courage to Act. Both of them are talking about how the crisis has started and how they managed to block an even larger meltdown, yet I sensed a subtle but significant difference in their tone; while … More Bernie Sanders and Modern Monetary Theory: The Brave New World in Modern Macroeconomics? (Part II)
I just wanted to make a quick blog post today, since I’ve received one or two questions about why the recent finding by LIGO, the LASER Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory, is so important. So for people who haven’t heard about this event, which happened roughly a week ago, a team of LIGO scientists have observed a … More LIGO and Gravitational Waves
This is my “A Ramble on Ethics” series! It’s, uh, a ramble on ethics. We often find that in both the past and the present governments, institutions, or even individuals have often engaged in activities that aren’t very ethical. This series talks about these events with a bit of my own opinion mixed in. I … More A Ramble on Ethics: Kodak and I-131 Radiation
A few days ago, Gregory Mankiw criticized Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton for their opposition to the Trans-Pacific Partnership. This remark alone isn’t at all unfamiliar. After all, Mankiw has been on the side of free market economics since he wrote his first newspaper column in 1997. But we should be a bit more cautious … More Bernie Sanders and Modern Monetary Theory: The Brave New World in Modern Macroeconomics? (Part I)
It's Really Not Rocket Science 