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Liberating North Korea from mental slavery 30 Jul 2013 | 03:49 am
Michael Ferguson asked: "Watched a documentary last night on North Korea. It only fueled my desire to understand authority dynamics at the neural level. How do you liberate an entire country from the ...
The paradox of being human 29 Jul 2013 | 07:20 am
To be human is a paradox: we are gods in embryo, infinite in potential, yet we are less than the dust of the earth, infinite in weakness and fallibility. We are individually so habitual and collective...
Achievement unlocked: got my green card -- and fixing the immigration system 27 Jul 2013 | 11:23 am
Major life update: I received the notification email this morning that my green card was approved. This ends a 12-year saga of the US taxpayer spending literally millions on my education but the US go...
How to protect kids from objectionable content online 13 May 2013 | 09:08 pm
The nephew of a friend of mine is 9 years old and has been recently demonstrating his ability to search for almost anything online. The friend asked about how to protect a nephew from inappropriate co...
How to synchronize collaborative music performances with Google+ Hangouts 17 Apr 2013 | 06:39 am
Someone just asked me via email how she can synchronize her singing over a Google+ Hangout with a musician on the other end, when it seemed like there was a time delay that was tripping them up. She w...
More on leaving academia 8 Apr 2013 | 11:44 pm
The problem with being a grad student is that the burden of an unfinished thesis or dissertation, or paper deadlines, or assignment deadlines, never goes away. You never feel quite free to walk away f...
Self-driving cars leave me with more questions that answers 10 Jan 2013 | 09:41 am
I frequently think about self-driving cars, and I'm left with many more questions than answers. Here are some questions about autonomous vehicles that I was thinking about today and jotted down. Will...
The real translation of "Obban Gangnam Style" into English 11 Nov 2012 | 02:13 am
Millions of people around the world are singing "Obban Gangnam Style" and dancing the horse riding dance without a clue what the words mean :-) There is a ton of nuance in this phrase. I figured I wo...
How to change timezone settings on Gmail, Google Calendar etc. 2 Sep 2012 | 12:39 am
Every time I go back and forth between the East and West coast of the US, I have to google how to change timezones on Google products, because (1) the settings are hard to find, and (2) you have to ch...
On the nouveaux érudits and anti-theism 1 Aug 2012 | 12:30 pm
Since the rise of a few prominent and vocal atheists about five years ago, public anti-theist sentiment has increased dramatically. The nouveaux érudits are successfully introducing into the public su...
