Month: April 2013

The No-Calorie Hypothetical

If you could have one type of food not count for you, what type of food would it be? By ‘count,’ I mean in terms of calories, nutrition, hunger, or anything but taste. Related posts: Deadly Corn, Anonymous Posts, and Tricky, tricky Latin Genetically modified foods are crazy. It’s one of the reasons I don’t…

continue reading
No Comments

Did Facebook kill the blogosphere?

Because if so, that is sad. For most of us, the two serve very different purposes. I actually think I thrive differently in different media. I love the pseudo-anonymity associated with blogging. What killed blogging for me was becoming a dumb graduate student. Related posts: Girls are Dumb I have a friend who had been…

continue reading
No Comments

A brief history of time travel

Last week, I interviewed a bunch of high school seniors for a very prestigious scholarship. About 50% will get it, which includes about $250,000 worth of funding. The other 50% will have to content themselves with going to Harvard. ((… I hate it when people are more successful than me…)) My friend Topher also interviewed…

continue reading
No Comments