How Climate Change Makes Your Allergies Worse and Your Breathing Harder

Image Credit: Lodahln (CC-BY-SA 2.0, flickr) I woke up in the middle of the night again. Scratchy throat? Insatiably itchy eyes? Just a bit of cough? Oh yeah. Had to be ragweed. Time to start back on the allergy pills. Admittedly, my fall allergies aren’t nearly as bad as the wave of foggy headedness, poor … Continue reading How Climate Change Makes Your Allergies Worse and Your Breathing Harder

Bias Makes the World Go ‘Round, or Why Scientists are Socially Abnormal

Bias is a funny thing. Typically, modern society demonizes bias. If you’re labeled as biased, you may as well be labeled a fraud. Above stupid, idiot, and clueless; biased is seen as one of the most educated ways to instantly debase anyone. In my own dredging of the internet I have noticed that the use … Continue reading Bias Makes the World Go ‘Round, or Why Scientists are Socially Abnormal

Oh! You do have that look about you.

Frankly, our country is in no place to be reforming education. I don’t speak from a fiscally conservative view point but rather from a practical one.  That is, we as a nation have not even settled on a sufficient definition of that word. The title of this post has the distinction of being the only … Continue reading Oh! You do have that look about you.