Examining the logic behind the popular dietary adage A while back I joined a clean eating Facebook group out of curiosity and was shocked to read how confidently users would hand out poor dietary advice to others. I’m no dietician or doctor, but I am a professional cook who’s been…

Breaking down a classic folk hit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpscHOoGIqQ In “Fast Car,” Tracy Chapman shares a deeply realistic tale of the struggle of overcoming poverty and building the foundations of a better life. …

Why do the uneducated argue with the educated? How do we solve the problem? Biology students are conflicted when they’re disowned for attempting to explain to their deeply religious families that evolution is backed with enormous amounts of evidence. Physics students are told they’re wrong when they explain to their…

What I Learned in a College Ethics Course Get ready to re-evaluate your core beliefs. The Study of Ethics Ethics is not merely the study of one’s beliefs. It is the logical interrogation of one’s beliefs in an attempt to justify whether they are even worthy of believing in the first place. Ethics brings…

This interpretation is indeed obscure. Everything I've read by physicists that I look up to say that consciousness creating reality is simply a misinterpretation of the delayed choice experiment and, based on what I understand, I tend to agree with them. It makes more sense to say that the way…

A response to Aima Tariq’s article about Christianity’s role in history — “What if Christianity Never Existed?” is an article published in History of Yesterday by Aima Tariq, a self-described “Capricorn witch studying history, politics, and self-help for owls.” In it, they argue that many aspects of our lives today would be completely different if Christianity had never existed. I disagree with…

The absolute nonsense of Aristotelian physics. — In case you’ve lived under a rock your whole life and have never heard of Aristotle, he was a Greek philosopher that lived between 384 and 322 B.C.E. His works in philosophy, psychology, politics, ethics, and many other fields of thought are held in high regards to this day. However…

Do you and your friends experience the same time? Is time travel possible? Time and Length are Not Absolute In 1905, physicist Albert Einstein published a paper in the journal Annalen der Physik titled “On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies.” …

How to deal with teachers that mark correct answers as incorrect. — You’re taking a test or a quiz and you’ve just finished answering the last question. You’re confident in your answers. “I nailed it,” you think to yourself as you take one more look over it to make sure everything is in order and you hit that finalizing “Submit” button. The…