I’ve been pretty public about the fact that I’ve spent the past year going through some financial difficulties. While I absolutely understand that I’m privileged (my finances have never gotten so low that I became homeless or couldn’t eat), I’ve got to say that being broke sucks. I know that everyone has…
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I've had a love affair with science for most of my life. But when science starts behaving like a dogmatic religion it’s no longer science. It’s scientism.
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I've been a passion junkie since I was 16 years old. It all started in high school, when one of my teachers showed our class a video about a scientist named Ivan Pavlov. Pavlov was doing research on learning, and his theories have had a major impact on the field of psychology. After watching the video, I asked my teacher…
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I’ve never been big on setting new year’s resolutions. But for most of my life I’ve had a general idea of the major professional goals I was working toward in any given year. For 10 years my goal was to get my PhD. After that, when I had a corporate job, I worked hard to…
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