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Political Stuff by michaeljzoorobJun 26, 20167:46 pmJune 26, 2016

When Knowledge Becomes Power—Academics who became politicians

Since I’m studying (or, really, am about to start studying) academic political science towards a PhD in Government, I get asked a lot if I want to become a politician, which seems like a strange […]

Artsy (broadly) by michaeljzoorobMay 25, 201612:36 amMay 26, 2016

Beautiful Etymology

Anandamide, the endogenous cannabanoid neurotransmitter; name comes from “the Sanskrit word ananda, which means ‘joy, bliss, delight.’” (I guess Vishy Anand, the chess player, gets his family name from this word too!) Coprolalia, the word for clinical profanity. Coprolalia […]

Uncategorized by michaeljzoorobJul 11, 20155:39 amJuly 11, 2015

Summer Reading Goals and Progress

I have spent some time reading this summer. And a lot of time listening to Audiobooks. Not sure what my goals are, but I do like to keep on learning. I’ll track some progress and […]

Political Stuff by michaeljzoorobApr 15, 201511:17 pmApril 15, 2015
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Is there systematic gender discrimination in Metro Nashville Employment? Part 1

Using the same municipal employee data from data.nashville.gov as the previous post, here I am looking at whether there is evidence of gender discrimination in the salaries of Metro Nashville government employees. Obviously this is a pretty […]

Political Stuff by michaeljzoorobApr 14, 20153:29 amApril 14, 2015
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Playing around with Nashville Open Data – $400 million on government salaries!

I found that the government of Nashville has some open data at https://data.nashville.gov. I messed around with a couple of employment datasheets and made some graphs. Mean Salary vs Ethnicity Mean Annual Salary by Job Category […]

Political Stuff by michaeljzoorobAug 13, 20144:07 amAugust 13, 2014
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Two odd side-effects of drug prevention campaigns

A Washington Post article today reveals a new cannabis prevention campaign targeting teenagers in Colorado. Unfortunately, the state which has shown the freethinking boldness to legalize marijuana for adults is implementing some of the same, long-debunked nonsense typical […]

Political Stuff by michaeljzoorobJul 31, 20149:06 pmJuly 31, 2014
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Planned remarks before Houston City Council

Below are my planned remarks for the speech I gave at Houston City Hall on Tuesday, July 29, 2014. Unfortunately, due to the number of speakers, I was only allowed one minute instead of the […]

Society by michaeljzoorobJun 17, 201412:40 amJune 17, 2014
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Why do so few medical students become Psychiatrists?

Today one of my coworkers and I got in an interesting discussion (or maybe an argument) about why relatively few medical students become psychiatrists. She just finished her first year at a pretty prestigious medical […]

Uncategorized by michaeljzoorobMay 20, 20143:11 pm

How many people are dead because of the anti-vaccination movement? 

Uncategorized by michaeljzoorobMay 15, 20143:34 am

Humorous, Spurious Correlations 

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