He who asks a question feels a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a question is a fool forever. – Chinese Proverb Growing up, I always hated when teachers said, “There’s no such thing as a stupid question .” Clearly those teachers hadn’t been around for the high school physics class when I…
Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts. — E.B. White Last week, we described the introduction of recreationally using marijuana in the United States, through the surge in Mexican immigration in 1910. Already, these immigrants were an outside group (an “outgroup”) to the U.S., and so…
After all is said and done, a lot more will be said than done. — Unknown Did you know that each dandelion flower produces 200 seeds? Or that a quarter of the world’s wealth is controlled by just 200 companies? Or that in 200 minutes, you will have taken about 2,600 breaths, blinked about 3,400 times, and…
The great tragedy of science—the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact. — Thomas Huxley So the other day, I was doing some intensive graduate research on a series of tests informing me which Marvel superhero I was most like. When I completed the first quiz, it reported I was most similar to…
A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water. — Carl Reiner A frozen tundra, a snowy whisper: I cross the arctic just in slippers. Goosebumps, shivers, icy feel, replaced my chest with frozen steel. My breath is foggy, fingers numb; warmth, I fear, will never come The…