Feature article on teaching in Minnea...
The Sunday Star Tribune’s Opinion section features my story on teaching in north Minneapolis public schools. With this endeavor has come a mix of difficulty, sadness, and hope.
My hope is that you get something out of it: enjoy : )
have a blessed Sunday,
-Brandon
Apply To Go To Mars: A Look at the Ap...
I write on this blog about reaching new plateaus. The Dutch company Mars One wants to take humanity to new planets.
I wrote a couple months ago about this extraordinary mission which I believe has the power to change the world. The whole process of choosing the astronauts, training them, the flight, and then life on the Red Planet will be tel [...]
Is Addiction a Disease?
With all the reality TV such as “My Strange Addiction”, ”Celebrity Rehab”, and “Hoarders”, there’s never been a time when addiction has been more widely observed.
Additionally, I’ve noticed from scientific and popular media a push for addiction awareness and the advocacy of treating it as a dise [...]
Super Heroes
I bumped into a cool site that lists the scientists whose discoveries have saved the most lives.
There are over 100 scientists named and divided into “clubs” such as the 100,000 club. I’ll share a few here and encourage you to check out the rest right at ScienceHeroes.com.
Coming in at the “bottom” with an estima [...]
The Snap Heard ‘Round the World
The human body is a mystery. Phenomena occur all the time that have doctors scratching their heads. A friend of mine recently had a golf ball-sized tumor in his brain dissolve after plaguing him for seven years. He was elated; doctors at the Mayo Clinic are stumped.
You might think, though, that something as standard and simple as a broken le [...]
End of Extinction?
In the future, we might be able to worry about one less thing: extinction. This goes for species whose numbers are currently low, but also for those which no longer walk the earth.
Advances made now allow scientists to clone animals without even having an intact cell from that species to work from. I can’t explain the process in depth, [...]
Steubenville: Another Window into the...
Each high-profile court case in America provides a stage for the media and public to act out their stance on justice. This time, the noteworthy performances were the cheers on Twitter and the angry reaction from many toward CNN’s own reaction to the verdict.
Knowing the outline of the case, there seemed little doubt that these guys were [...]
No $ for Adult Bookstores
The story might seem a bit ho-hum at first: a bank decides not to lend to businesses it deems unethical.
But hold on. How do you interpret the actions of a big bank not lending to certain businesses? -Is it smart business? -Discriminatory? -Their right?
This story slides down the razor’s edge of opposing ideologies. What I mean is that [...]
Body Parts Sale
Finally, we get the answer to the question we’ve all been dying to know: how much are my body parts worth? And we get the answer is this awesome infographic courtesy of medicaltranscription.net.
Before we take a look at this masterpiece of body pieces, though, it’s worth noting the thoughts and issues this graphic brings up:
First [...]
