Here’s something that no-one wants to talk about: physicians are regular people. We like to put doctors on a pedestal because they are in charge of our health, and we’re like to feel that our health is in the hands of the best, but the best are very few, and it’s improbable that you’ll be […]
Going to space is hard. The main reason is that it takes a lot of energy (read: fuel) to take us off the planet. The more fuel you need to pack, the heavier you are, so the more fuel you need to fight gravity. It’s a self-defeating cycle. The answer is, of course, more efficient […]
If someone woke me up in the middle of the night, shaking me while asking “What’s your job?!”, I’de say “I’m a writer!” The irony that my most famous work is not in the written form, but in the spoken medium, is not lost on me. I’ve had the immense privilege of having had hundreds of […]
“Wealth Redistribution” is a loaded term. It smacks of the dark ages of murderous communist utopias and makes hard working people fearful of big government forcefully taking their comfort away for the benefit of people who they don’t identify with. To make matters worse, it’s usually touted by the 0.01%, people who are magnitudes richer […]