Net Neutrality has quickly become a household term in the United States, and for good reason. Should the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) follow through on its threat to pass new rules for regulating internet service providers, the internet as we know it will certainly change, perhaps dramatically. The way in which it will change is unclear for now, but history suggests that the arguably good intentions of the new rules are unlikely to live up to their lofty expectations. [Read more…]
Archives for February 2015
The Dangerous Myth of Waste-Removal Programs
Smart consumers consider multiple factors when deciding whether to buy a particular product. Is it affordable? Is the quality good? How long will it last? Can I return it if I don’t like it? Are there any special discounts available? It therefore seems peculiar that one aspect of purchasing products is completely absent from our decision-making process: How will I dispose of this when it’s no longer of any use to me? [Read more…]
Top 5 Reasons Baseball Is the Greatest Sport
“One week until pitchers and catchers report” is one of the most beautiful sentences in the English language. For the uninitiated, it is essentially the first published sign of baseball teams getting back into form for the upcoming season. Players, beginning with pitchers and catchers —baseball’s “battery”, as it’s known—begin to trickle in to their team’s Spring Training camps in Florida and Arizona. [Read more…]
Learning to Live With Rats: How Humans Adapt
The car was mostly dark inside except for a dimly-lighted portion of the front seat headrest I was staring at. I spotted a single, pinkie nail-sized baby cockroach hanging out, unafraid in the center of the headrest. Supposedly, a healthy female cockroach can produce between 300-400 offspring—a Wikipedia fact that fails to comfort me. Seeing a baby, I assume there must be dozens more, potentially of varying sizes, yet their whereabouts are unknown in the darkness. [Read more…]
