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Society by Michael ZoorobDec 24, 20179:07 pmSeptember 10, 2018

Suicide is not inevitable (Vanderbilt Hustler re-post)

I wrote several articles for Vanderbilt’s campus newspaper, but all of these were lost from the Vanderbilt Hustler website (along with all historic website content) sometime in the summer of 2016. I’m going to try […]

Political Stuff by Michael ZoorobSep 25, 20167:29 pmSeptember 25, 2016
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The American Revolutionaries might have been Thugs

It’s really odd, actually, how the myth of the American founding that I learned in elementary school is reasonably transparent about the fact that this country was founded by thugs who had no respect for the rule […]

Political Stuff by Michael ZoorobAug 31, 20163:26 amJune 11, 2020
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Nashville’s Policing Data Show Uneven Racial Burden from Operation Safer Streets

Operation Safer Streets (or OSS for short) has become the epicenter of Nashville’s debates over policing and racial justice. Every weekend, the MNPD funnels police officers to hotspots for gangs or crime, arguing that a […]

Political Stuff by Michael ZoorobJun 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 Michael ZoorobMay 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 Michael ZoorobJul 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 Michael ZoorobApr 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 Michael ZoorobApr 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 Michael ZoorobAug 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 Michael ZoorobJul 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 […]

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