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Seeing death as a problem, and possessing a discomfort or fear of all the suffering death causes is often dispelled by gaining a fuller perspective over time. Not many years ago, w…

The concepts outlined are pretty good, but I want to make a counterpoint against heuristics in general. Distilled ideas like these are certainly useful for trying to grasp a comple…

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The general sentiment about the TEAL classes (the ones with the clickers) is that they are really gimmicky. Supposedly, it gives the professor some feedback on what concepts are un…

When analyzing systems, we typically look for a transient response and the initial conditions. Extending this analogy, it would seem natural that even if we knew the characteristic…

I worked on designing something along these lines in a bioengineering design class I took for fun freshman year. The idea (for us) was motivated by the work that Ram Sasisekharan h…

I don't mean to imply that I think all the points the article makes are bogus because there are some insightful things that are said, especially near the conclusion. I do think the…

This article is more informative for what it implies about the writer/audience than its actual contents. It dabbles in a mess of pseudoscience (plus a generous dose of bolds and un…

If you think engineers can get carried away on tangents, I don't think you will find much better out of marketing and sales geniuses (whatever this means). Maybe it's better to sav…