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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Incoherent or Masterfully Erratic? Putin’s Six Contradictions in Ukraine
Russia’s involvement in Ukraine has been riddled with contradictions, including statements, actions, alleged motivations, and poll results that jar with one another. For example, officials first denied involvement in Crimea while justifying involvement in Crimea; […]
Musical Transformations: Word to sound and sound to kaleidoscopic color
I stumbled on some cool artistic transformations involving music and technology lately, and I thought I’d share / document them. 1. “Music Worth Watching.” I stumbled on a series of “animated graphical visualizations” of various […]
Michael Zoorob 