Author Archives: snarkologist

About snarkologist

Engineer, Researcher, Athlete, and Blogger. Jack of all trades, master of none.

Predicted Winner: Obama (and Some Nerds)

Posted on November 5, 2012

Below you will find my prediction for the 2012 Presidential Election. I should point out that, like Wiesman, my prediction is based almost entirely on the incredibly great work of Sam Wang at Princeton Election Consortium and Nate Silve at FiveThirtyEight. … Continue reading →

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First Anniversary of DADT Repeal: A Look Back on A Tumultuous Year

Posted on September 20, 2012

1 year ago today, the repeal of DADT that President Barack Obama signed into law went into effect. In case you don’t remember, this was a decade+ long fight that involved the opposition claiming that our military would become a bunch … Continue reading →

Posted in Inequality, LGBT, Military | Tagged | 1 Comment

Finally!

Posted on September 13, 2012

In case you missed it, the Fed announced QE3 today. QE1 and 2 were kind of the same, but QE3 is different. Oh so different. Sometimes the sequels are worse than the originals, like Crocodile Dundee, Home Alone, Jurassic Park, … Continue reading →

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The Government Can’t Do Anything Right

Posted on August 6, 2012

Can you imagine sending a car to Mars? Can you imagine carefully landing it on the Martian sufrace even though there is a 14 minute delay between the time you send a signal on Earth until the time it is … Continue reading →

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This Guy Should Run for President

Posted on July 9, 2012

He makes a lot of sense. Anyone know where he went? I think “unabashed” is the only appropriate word that comes to mind. He really is an etch-a-sketch. h/t wapo.

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Airline Tickets: Pay by the Pound?

Posted on July 3, 2012

Hello disagreeables. As you may (or may not have) noticed, I’ve been away from the blogging machine for a little while. Turns out, work, traveling, sports competitions, moving, and general life got in the way of angrily smashing keys on my keyboard … Continue reading →

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A New Method for Measuring Unemployment and Economic Recovery

Posted on April 12, 2012

Wiesman has been faithfully covering the unemployment numbers for a while now. In his last post, he referenced the most common unemployment argument: that the unemployment rate is going down because people are dropping out of the job market. The … Continue reading →

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Republican Healthcare Policy: Status Quo

Posted on April 5, 2012

The ACA supreme court case has been covered ad nauseum over the past few days, so I won’t go into some long diatribe and repeat what Wiesman and others have already said. But yesterday I was talking to a coworker … Continue reading →

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This is why Fox News is a Dangerous Organization

Posted on March 23, 2012

If you’ve ever thought, “self, I wonder what the average fox news viewer thinks about ______,” head on over to this article about Trayvon Martin and read the comments. These are basically all you need to know about why Fox … Continue reading →

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How Culture Influences Perception

Posted on March 16, 2012

I found an amazing video today that I wanted to share. It’s called: “Do you see what I see?” and it features the Himba tribe from Namibia in south west Africa. The Himba have defined colors very differently from Westerners. … Continue reading →

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