Where does all this money end up, anyway?
When money moves around, it undergoes name changes. Money moving from a corporation into some nice math and landing somewhere in the government is — tax…
Read articleWhy psychology isn’t science: Alex B. Berezow
A doctorate in microbiology wrote this piece about psychology not being science. Why can we definitively say that? Because psychology often does not meet the five…
Read articleJonathan Franzen
Start with a fun fact. Did you know: trust fund hipsters (allegedly there are a few different types) are sometimes looked down upon for converting real…
Read articleTruth
As Professor Dumbledore once said: A beautiful and terrible thing. Reaching it is either delightfully or devilishly tricky. (The pursuit of it keeps UBC running, anyways.)…
Read articleIntelligence and Good Ideas
I am re-thinking a few things: a) where intelligence comes from and b) where good ideas come from and c) whether or not those are actually…
Read articleI may never know..
a) why trains are roomy versus why airplanes are crammed and b) why the popularity of hats in Britain has never quite translated over to this…
Read articleHow We Sustain: UBC’s John Robinson
I dug up this image from Word and I set out to look at it from a few different perspectives. I saw… an underused piece of…
Read articleToby
An introduction is in order. First, though, a personal TV hero (are those allowed?) He’s perhaps a familiar face to those who watch The West Wing, a…
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