Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance. -- Plato I have a confession to make—maybe even a confession you, too, would like to repent alongside me. I’m a review moocher. For all …
Be the Advocate
Great ideas alone don't cause progress; it is the spreading of those ideas that does. -- (Teeny & Petty, 2017) A couple years ago, I wrote a post about my Master’s Thesis; now, however, that …
Convince Yourself by Convincing Others
Persuasion is often more effectual than force. -- Aesop If you've ever used social media, you have probably tried to change someone's opinion on something--and probably done so in vain. Facebook …
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Questioning Our Beliefs
The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion draws all things else to support and agree with it. -- Sir Francis Bacon If humans could answer one question to solve the world’s …
Very Extreme Politics
Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance. -- Plato And so it begins… This previous Monday was the first in the series of presidential debates between Hillary Clinton and Donald …
A Graduate Student, Officially
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice; In practice, there is. -- Chuck Reid One week into graduate school, and I’m already fulfilling the graduate student stereotype: I eat …