February 2012
11 posts
the affirmative action debate in The Tech
Something is wrong if you’re course 17 (Political Science) and you don’t understand how racism, sexism, and classism work… or affirmative action, for that matter.
it’s especially disturbing when the counterargument is so damn simple.
yeah, women and other minorities do question how they got into MIT… because of asshats like Mr. Briscoe creating such a welcoming,...
“An M.I.T. neuroscientist named Ann Graybiel told me that she and her colleagues...”
– Charles Duhigg, How Companies Learn Your Secrets
This is, like, the secret nut graf in this widely circulated NYT piece about shopping habits. Tell me this doesn’t explain everything about everything.
I run into Ann Graybiel in the elevator at least once a week and sometimes I get to ask her about...
my advisor gives a basic talk on neuroscience for... →
science!
How Not To Write About Female Musicians: A Handy... →
Watchthebusstop:
John Kasich Parkinson’s Imitation Marks Ad Hoc Speech That Veered Off The Rails
Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R) does not generally script his speeches, preferring to form his remarks off-the-cuff based on notes. In the case of his State of the State address on Tuesday, that approach appears to have come back to bite the first-term chief executive, as he issued a rambling 100-minute...
what is so difficult about understanding that...
seriously. this is getting old. I took ONE cognitive science class. the rest, neuroscience.
