Recommendation: read When Fussell wrote in 1982 (and published in 1983), he said that acknowledging the class divisions that exist in America exist was poor form and that doing so would likely […]
Title IX in Science and Engineering
Your university’s science and engineering programs might be “Titled nined” if Those That Care have their way. Title IX, or the “Patsy T. Mink Equal Opportunity in Education Act”, is one of […]
Go, Bird, go!
You’ve all heard it by now. Mark “The Bird” Fidrych is dead. He was 54. There are plenty of places to read about The Bird, like here and especially here. I remember […]
Top 10 Men’s fashion rules
It’s Spring, so it’s high time we talked about men’s fashion. Update: George Will and Daniel Akst from the Wall Street Journal have weighed in. We’ll do women at another time, but […]
I don’t care about your tour of the clubhouse
Enough with the pitch count! It was 88 last pitch—and even with my limited mathematical ability I can figure out that the next must be 89. Keep quiet about on-base percentages against […]
Omni magazine: a tribute
Crap. Some kind of psychobabble how-to. Crap. Romance novel, romance novel, something in a plastic binder—and it’s sticky!, ah geez—crap, crap, crap. Wait…what’s that one. With the psychedelic cover. Do I read […]
Did a psychic solve the Tabitha Horn murder case?
This was an investigation that I did a long time ago, but I never properly wrote up. I was inspired to finally do so by reading Joe Nickell’s similar sleuthing of the […]
What scientific or technological advance would you most like to see in your lifetime?
The real geeks among us long for synthohol. Only Class A nerds know, or admit to knowing, what it is, too. But I have to tell you, your potential partner’s drinking it […]
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