Archive for the ‘achievement’ Category
Sunday, July 13th, 2008
Adam Bender, 8, is one of several kids who plays catcher in Southeastern’s rookie league at Veterans Park. What makes Adam stand out is that he plays one of the toughest positions on the field with only one leg. ... -- Lexington Herald Leader
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Friday, June 20th, 2008
From the Wall Street Journal, a story that could come right out of Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead:
...tens of thousands of people who lost their homes in Hurricane Katrina and are still living in federally owned trailers will be forced to find a new place to live. After nearly three years, ...
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Wednesday, April 11th, 2007
Before I describe my proposal, I would like to acknowedge Paul Hsieh, M.D. for his excellent letter to Colorado doctors about the horrors of government-controlled medicine.
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Colorado's Commission on Health Care Reform has posted its proposals on their website. Click on "Proposals" and then "Health Reform Proposals" in the left ...
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Sunday, February 18th, 2007
Today my improv comedy class from Madcap Theater performed a couple of shows to demonstrate what we had learned in the six week "Level 1" class. As with the first performance, it went great. What is even more satisfying that what I've learned through the classes is the ...
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Monday, January 29th, 2007
Yet another notable part of an Arnold Kling article: Porkbusters.org. As quoting its Wikipedia entry:
Porkbusters is an effort led by mostly conservative and libertarian bloggers to cut pork barrel spending by the U.S. Congress in order to help pay for Hurricane Katrina recovery projects. The effort was launched ...
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Monday, January 15th, 2007
This morning I read the beginning of Arnold Kling's column on TCSDaily, and where he had a link to Edge.org. the website of the Edge Foundation:The mandate of Edge Foundation is to promote inquiry into and discussion of intellectual, philosophical, artistic, and literary issues, as well as to work for ...
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Sunday, August 6th, 2006
A academic journal article based on my research was recently published in Chemistry of Materials. As second author, I contributed the numerical simulations confirming the results, for example, those shown in the plot below. I'm proud of this work, as I put a fair amount of time into ...
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Thursday, July 13th, 2006
This is a remarkable innovation. I read about it in this article in the Guardian.
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Friday, May 12th, 2006
Late last August I completed yet another season of the University of Colorado faculty/grad student/staff softball league, defended my PhD dissertation, and left Boulder for Washington, D.C. for a technology & science policy fellowship at the National Academies. In short, that didn't work out, so I began looking for jobs ...
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Thursday, March 23rd, 2006
A few weeks ago I was at a red light when a man driving a Datsun (not Nissan) 280 Z pulled up in the lane to my left. It was silver with shiny chrome hubcaps, and was in excellent condition. According to a Wikipedia page, this car was produced between ...
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