- My uncertain future
With graduation looming ever closer, I face a choice: med school, grad school, or a gap year.
Med school: Out of the seven that I applied to, I have an interview at one. I’m pretty sure that the problem with the others was my poor MCAT Writing Sample score. The one interview that I have is [...]
Sunday, February 17th, 2008 - The Genocide Olympics
As China has grown, so has its need for cheap oil. The oil fields of Sudan fill this need, but at a price. In return for oil, the Chinese government has helped to finance and arm the Government of Sudan-backed genocide in Darfur. As well, the Chinese government, as a veto-wielding member of the UN [...]
Sunday, February 10th, 2008 - Why not “genocide”?
In our society, we have detectives who investigate a crime, lawyers who prosecute the offenders and judges who sentence them. If a crime is in progress, we call the police; we are not expected to stop it ourselves—unless it’s genocide. This is the distinction that the Genocide Convention makes, in its very first article:
Thursday, February 7th, 2008
Article 1
The [...] - mekentosj Papers
Papers is an application to help you find, organise, read, and search all those PDFs that you accumulate during research. It is written by two nerds—sorry, scientists—in the Netherlands (and now UK), and won an Apple Design Award in 2007.
Saturday, September 29th, 2007
I downloaded the demo to help me with a biochem assignment. So far it only searches [...] - Queen’s U. proxy bookmarklet
“Great, I found the article I was looking for! But wait, what’s this? I can only see the abstract? Oh yeah, I forgot to log into the proxy.”
Saturday, September 15th, 2007
If this happens to you as often as it does to me, you might be interested in using this bookmarklet: Proxy it. Just drag that link to your [...]