Serious Drinking Age Solution

So maybe last time I posted about this I was not being as serious as I could have been. In fact I believe I was not being serious at all. But I do actually have a way to alter drinking age laws to prevent colleges getting sued for unsupervised and prevent heavy drinking in high [...]

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Political Polling

 
It seems that every day in the news is an article or report on how McCain and Obama are faring in the most recent poll. The news is about how a recent event effected some subgroup of voters and changed their opinion of a candidate by 2.5%, with a margin of error of 3%. Polls [...]

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Sligachan

 
Legend has it that the waters running through Sligachan on the Isle of Skye are enchanted. Years ago there lived the greatest warrior of Scotland, a woman named Scáthach. One day word of her greatness made it to the halls of the mightiest warrior of Ireland Cúchulainn. Upon hearing this he knew that he must [...]

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Cinque Terre

 
The train ride from Rome to Pisa is likely a popular one for tourists wishing to see the fabled leaning tower. Returning to the historic streets of Rome before the sun sets. Yet Pisa is not the final destination on those train tracks, it is just a minute long pause on the way to the [...]

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Driving

Like many people my age (twenty by the way) I have yet acquire my drivers license. So for the past few summers I have been getting my license. Every summer I start off with the arduous goal of practicing all summer and getting it by the end. Since habit is hard to break I have [...]

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Drinking Age Solution

 
Recently in the news has been a revitalization of the drinking age discussing. One of the causes of this resusitation has been a petition by college professors to lower the drinking age. They argue that the current drinking age encourages binge drinking of college students. Proponents for the current drinking age posit that it reduces [...]

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Physics Graduate School Choices

 
 
I started with a list of 39 graduate schools to look into, after slashing that list down based on general principles (website design, research areas, location) I made it down to around twelve. From that twelve I have narrowed it down to my final eight. Well final with the caveat that I can always add [...]

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Sloughing Redwood

Today I went hiking around Armstrong Grove in Sonoma County, a redwood forest and towards the end I found this tree. Well I suppose I did not really find it as it happened to fall right across the old path. I carried my camera, extra lens and tripod through the rest of the forest so [...]

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Under the House

I really liked the look of the barrels when I did an HDR shot a day or so ago, so I decided to go back down and try it again. In order to get a full range of exposures I had to use my cell phone to time out a two minute exposure because my [...]

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Meta-Post

 
So why do I have a blog? Occasionally I ask this alongside of: why am I even putting this online?
These questions usually come up when I post something that I know is not the best thing out there or even the most mediocre thing out there. Yet I seem to post it anyway. My answer [...]

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