The week’s best links that we didn’t get to: 1. China has built the world’s fastest supercomputer. 2. Got a bug problem?  Try the tiny pie catapult. 3. The radio shows you should be listening to. 4. Should we ditch the corporate income tax? 5. If you’re worried that you’re an elite, you can take this quiz [...]

Since I’ve gotten to college I’ve taken my procrastination to next level. Because my earliest class starts at 11:00 am I have developed a mind set that I don’t need to get my work done the night before and can always wake up early to  get everything done. While this has technically worked so far, I hate [...]

Last night my girlfriend and I got into a rigorous discussion over this post, which basically reports that Christina Hendricks isn’t actually going on a diet. “So what?” Michelle, my girlfriend, asked. Her argument was that it was really news fluff. I disagreed.* I think it’s actually pretty important whether Christina Hendricks is going on [...]

I haven’t been paying too much attention to the It Gets Better campaign, but I like the idea, and I like that the campaign is expanding to bullying in general. For those who don’t know, the basic idea is that public personalities make a youtube video directed at people who are being ostracized for being [...]

As usual, cool links for your enjoyment: 1. Were computers the greatest tech development of the 20th century? 2. Big ideas from small countries 3. The obsolescence of the Monroe Doctrine 4. Misinformation in Virginia textbooks 5. What do we do when North Korea collapses? 6. Really cool pictures of really small things 7. Explaining [...]

I think it’s becoming the norm that every chance I have to write about the broader role Jon Stewart plays in the intersection of media and politics I take. Consider here and here. Or maybe the I just wish I had enough money to go to the upcoming Rally for Sanity. Anyway, so White House [...]