Do Geniuses Really Exist: The Bullshit of “They’re Special”
I got into a long and highly theoretical debate with a fellow Phd student recently, and it prompted this post. It started out as a conversation about a bad class we both took together, and started to...
View ArticleReduce Your Network Embeddedness by Removing Your Best Friends From Facebook...
Small Steps to Addiction Slowly but surely you’ve felt a mild Facebook addiction creeping in. At first, you didn’t even want to join Facebook. Perhaps you felt that it was a useless platform – well...
View ArticleRemember: The World is Your Oyster
Falstaff: I will not lend thee a penny. Pistol: Why then the world’s mine oyster, Which I with sword will open Falstaff: Not a penny. From Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor Starting out 2019,...
View ArticleAre we losing a generation of scientists to Instagram?
Instagram: The result of my generation’s (millennials) constant seeking of attention, non-stop craving for social proof, and addiction to new social media platforms. Hi, again! It’s been a while! Glad...
View ArticleWhy Won’t Science Magazine and AAAS Honor my Subscription?
As if print publications in the academic community have simply and finally given up altogether, my experience with Science Magazine over the past year has been emblematic of a business model that is...
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