September 2009
3 posts
Now this is just so sad…a reminder that we should not become complacent in life, especially when there is so much wrong in this world.
Cameron Todd Willingham, Texas, and the death... →
One of the best articles I have read in a while
Nothing Gold Can Stay
Nature’s first green is gold
Her hardest hue to hold
Her early leaf’s a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
-Robert Frost
August 2009
11 posts
The Truth About Lying →
UCB RIP - Erik Tarloff →
Stereotypes Study: What Ohio Thinks of U.S.... →
Why There Are No Girls In San Francisco →
July 2009
7 posts
In Battle, Hunches Prove to Be Valuable →
Fascinating look into the perceptiveness of the brain
Files Vanished, Young Chinese Lose the Future
Another example of rampant corruption in China at the local level. Can you imagine spending years of effort and thousands of dollars for education only to have your identity stolen by the government? That’s just insane.
An Ode to Unemployment
I enjoyed reading this post from my friend Nick.
nickmiller:
This is for anyone who is currently facing the horrors of unemployment. I wrote this 3 years ago, when I was newly 23, after graduating college and living in Europe for 6 months.
He didn’t know if he loved her. He didn’t know if he wanted to love her. But he did know that he had been thinking about her a hell of a lot lately....
My friend from highschool →
…a reminder that we are all very lucky to be here.
(Update) and yet another reminder
R.I.P. Bahman and Michelle
Jupiter Gets a Black Eye
This guy is arguing for us to consider the possibility of living on another planet—incredible…but makes sense.