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Did You Know
The word “avocado” comes from the Nahuatl word āhuacatl (”testicle”, a reference to the shape of the fruit). Historically avocados had a long-standing stigma as a sexual stimulant and were not purchased or consumed by any person wishing to preserve a chaste image. As a fan of both etymology and of avocados, I found this interesting. Speaking [...]
Continue reading...Is College A Waste Of Time?
Thursday, August 14, 2008
As someone who did a tour of colleges, but finished at zero of them, I found this article pretty interesting. Imagine that America had no system of post-secondary education, and you were a member of a task force assigned to create one from scratch. One of your colleagues submits this proposal: First, we will set up a [...]
Continue reading...Will You Be Stimulating The Economy?
Thursday, May 8, 2008
It’s tax-rebate/economic-stimulus package time! Will you be getting some cash from Uncle Sam? If so, will you be using said cash to pump up the economy? Here is a little survey on the topic. Let me know what you think…. Quizzes by Quibblo.com
Continue reading...Behavioral Economics
Saturday, April 5, 2008
Coming home from work this past Thursday evening, I was listening to Marketplace on NPR as I so often do, and I had one of those moments….one of those moments where a story, or an idea, or a theory, or some piece of information, makes you really stop and think, and makes you really want [...]
Continue reading...- My Post Secret
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Updates From Twitter 
Nov 20th, 8pm. Heat has been turned on. I feel defeated.
Lady from Mass. Hist. Soc. sassed me this morning for being late out of the parking lot. I asked “Who are you?” and she got offended. I win.
@ky Apple products should come with something to put your wiener in. Then you’d be able to get everything from your MacBook. EVERYTHING
Friday, September 5, 2008
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