If you want to get people on bikes, there has to be a compelling reason that offsets looking like a dork in a helmet or showing up sweaty at work. One reason that may work – convincing women they should like sweaty dorks on bikes. Jan Garrard, an Australian researcher, is an expert on biking [...]
read moreIf you leave a job, you likely just leave a job because it does little good to carpet bomb an employer, especially since future employers frown on militant, slightly unbalanced people.But it's a Whole Foods - even the shoppers are slightly unbalanced so a future employer won't expect much. If Whole Foods customer statistics were extrapolated out to the population, vaccine herd immunity...
read moreIf you want to get people on bikes, there has to be a compelling reason that offsets looking like a dork in a helmet or showing up sweaty at work. One reason that may work – convincing women they should like sweaty dorks on bikes. Jan Garrard, an Australian researcher, is an expert on biking [...]
read morePunctuated equilibrium is a model of how evolutionary change happens. Like how raising taxes can help poor people in economic theory, it is an often-misinterpreted model but means that evolutionary change can take place in short periods of time - huge jumps associated with speciation events.It basically was created by paleontologists Niles Eldridge and Stephen Jay Gould to account for...
read moreWith the end of the space shuttle, we may also be seeing an end to manned space travel as a science endeavor. I am not saying we shouldn't send people into space, we certainly should, but it should be just that - a bold voyage into the unknown and not rationalized with science, where it is not a very good one. Robots are cheaper and better and the Congressional hearings are less messy...
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