Pixel

Read this and weep:1 For those of you not in the know, Duke is ranked 36th worldwide in philosophy, but 1st worldwide in philosophy of biology, which is my intended focus. You might say I only got accepted because of…

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Barring mitigating circumstances, all of my friends should be willing to: Bail me out of jail if need be (I’ve seriously lost a friend because of this) Give me a relatively small amount of change (such as to be able…

Washing your hands consists of four necessary and sufficient steps. Run water over hands Lather hands with soap Run water over hands Dry And yet, if you mess up the order, as I just did, it doesn’t work.

I’m so sick of discrimination, I want to vomit in fury.  I’d finally gotten to the point in my life when I thought that I was okay with this.  When I thought that the world was changing and that in…

My friend and I are going to start a podcast soon, but we want to come up with a name first. So throw out ideas, I’ll leave this post at the top until we have a name for our show.…

Actual conversation: Pixel:  Okay, let’s list the pros and cons of Heroin.  I’m for it.  PRO: New circle of friends. Yoshi:  But you get AIDS. Pixel:  Good point…  okay, PRO:  Learn valuable skills in using hypodermic needles. Yoshi:  CON:  You…

Like all Americans, I was glued to the TV last night watching the Super Tuesday results come it, but it’s not cuz I’m all political: I was watching it for the commercials.

But this time I’m not lying or projecting into the future.  Here’s a summary of what’s happened to me thus far: Leaving in the wee hours of the morning is a bad idea when you haven’t slept all day. When…

This is taken from a 2000 paper by Jonathan Haidt, Fredrik Björklund, and Scott Murphy from the University of Virginia. I wanted to mention it here because it shows how completely out-of-whack my constant exposure to philosophy has made me.…