Social Issues


RIP: Dr. Gopi Podila

Dr. Gopi Podila was among the three faculty members who were killed by Amy Bishop, a faculty member at University of Alabama who was denied tenure. The Indian American professor Podila’s research interests included functional genomics of plant-microbe interactions and plant molecular biology and biotechnology. My condolences to the families of the victims. What more […]


How Government Benevolence Contributes to Teenage Unemployment

Teenage unemployment is at 25.5%, an all time high since government started tracking these numbers in 1948. An estimated 1.64 million kids between ages 16 – 19 are unable to find jobs. Does government benevolence contribute to high rate of teenage unemployment? Before going into the role of government as a contributing factor for teenage […]






How To Make a Perfect Grilled Cheese Sandwich Every Time

For most people a tutorial on making grilled cheese is probably akin to explaining how to tie your shoe, but a friend was recently complaining that her 3-year-old rejects any grilled cheese sandwich with even the slightest hint of burning (scraping the burnt bits into the trash doesn’t fool her!) so we shared with her two small tips for making it perfect every time.


More White Stuff

Yikes… Mid-Atlantic states barely dug themselves out of the 30+ inch piles from last Fri-Sat snow. Many streets are only operating in as single lanes. More is on the way (it is already here in DC). We are pretty much snowed in for the last 5 days. Another 10-20 inches is expected tonight and tomorrow. […]