Wednesday, April 23rd, 2014
While interviewing candidates for a UX designer position, I asked them what their salary expectations were. Both were fresh graduates, from the same school, with the same project work in their portfolios, and with no real world experience. Their resumes were nearly identical. They were as alike, on paper, as any two job candidates will
Monday, February 10th, 2014
Mention the word ‘slavery’ and most people think of the American South from the 1600s to 1800s. But in truth, the evil of slavery has afflicted mankind all over the planet, before and after that time. According...
Sunday, November 3rd, 2013
As humans live longer, more animal species are going extinct. This was the conclusion of a University of California study, which wrote that human life expectancy was the determining factor for endangered birds and mammals. Though this...
Monday, October 28th, 2013
There’s a video making the rounds on Facebook and YouTube that seems to be making quite an impression on people. Unfortunately, it is so filled with false assumptions that the impression it makes is not only wrong,...
Wednesday, September 25th, 2013
Long before the word was invented, the world has been “multicultural.” And what’s more, it’s been multicultural in a real and meaningful way. Different peoples going about their lives in different ways. Each culture emphasizing a unique...
Friday, August 30th, 2013
She was in her late twenties, with flowing brown hair and clear pale skin. I met her on my morning commute. The 880 from Oakland to San Jose is one of the worst commutes in the Bay...
Saturday, August 24th, 2013
Franklin Delano Roosevelt is considered by many to be the greatest American President of the 20th century. His four terms as chief executive changed the course of government as we know it, and the direction of world...
Monday, August 19th, 2013
I didn’t plan to get in a fight. I didn’t go looking for trouble either, but somehow trouble seems to find me. Well, that’s not exactly true, maybe I was looking for it just a little bit....
Friday, August 9th, 2013
The antidote to Al Gore’s Inconvenient Truth, this film from the BBC ought to be mandatory viewing to those who are force fed the scare story of a global apocalypse driven by CO2. Highly critical of the...
Friday, August 2nd, 2013
MSNBC host Ari Melber, recently blamed the death of Detroit on the “Free Market.” One can only assume that Mr. Melber was simply reading the teleprompter and did not have the slightest idea what he was saying....
Sunday, July 28th, 2013
The great thing about science is that it is true for everyone. The terrible thing is that it’s not always true right away. One-year science says avocados are bad for you, and the next year science says...
Thursday, July 25th, 2013
Why can’t healthcare be inexpensive, high quality, and readily available? That is what everyone wants right? So why not? In my travels, I’ve discovered a few answers. One day I was walking around Bangkok, Thailand, when suddenly,...
Monday, July 22nd, 2013
You might have noticed that for the past 50 years or so, the healthcare industry has been saying that saturated fat is bad. They’ve blamed it for heart disease, obesity, Alzheimer’s and so on. Meanwhile, the rates...
Wednesday, July 17th, 2013
In the never-ending quest to make things affordable, I’ve decided to ‘go big’ and get a free Ferrari. I wouldn’t want to be called greedy, so therefore there will be free Ferraris for everyone. I suspect that...
Tuesday, July 16th, 2013
Rest easy citizen, Ohio Attorney General Mike Dewine is here to protect you from the evils of coffee (cups). Apparently there is not enough crime in Ohio to keep Dewine busy, so instead he has invested his...