Opinions
2020 Election
Early voting: Good idea, bad execution
People deserve a safe and relatively easy way to cast their ballots. Creating situations with limited locations and long lines is clearly not providing them that option.
Halloween
Embracing the ‘crazy ex-girlfriend’
Feelings don’t just disappear after a breakup, and there shouldn’t be a time limit on their acceptability.
Environment
Save the planet: Repurpose your Halloween costume
I have a proposal: Normalize wearing Halloween costumes year round.
body image
Other people’s bodies are none of your business
These are women whose adult bullying takes the form of “concern.”
COVID-19
Make a mask a part of your Halloween costume
We’re doing so well keeping our campus open and free from outbreaks, but we’re one unmasked party away from shutting everything down.
ai
Disaster prevention lessons from AI
Leading AI experts say there’s a 5% chance that artificial general intelligence, or AGI, will cause a human extinction-level disaster.
Halloween
Morbid curiosity: What’s so interesting about true crime?
Truth is stranger than fiction, because fiction is obliged to stick to believable possibilities, and truth isn’t.
nobel prize
Nobel by blood
For a prize that’s considered to be the pinnacle of achievement in any field, there’s a conservative distribution among extremely similar looking people.
motivation
What is success?
Success is the ability to keep persevering, not letting material gains or losses define you.
2020 Election
What’s in a euphemism?
Since Reagan, the American right wing has used euphemisms to disguise cruelty under nonsense phrases, shift public discourse, and couch unacceptable actions in a kind of abstract political mystique.