Allen Lew’s Thoughts

My answer for “life, the universe, and everything”

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Understanding climate change and weird weather

August 9th, 2007 · Comments Off

From Wired Science:
No, you cannot blame individual events like [the tornado in Brooklyn] on climate change, as it was possible for them to occur even without the human-made changes to the atmosphere. However, it is fair to ask whether the human changes have altered the likelihood of such events. There the answer seems [...]

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Great quote about hiring people

December 7th, 2005 · Comments Off

Your College is Not a Technical School-
“Never hire a human being who had a 4.0 in college. If they had a perfect GPA, it means they bought the act and never screwed around. Now a 2.0 is probably not so good. But the ones who had 3.0, yeah! Those are the freaks you want!” [...]

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Future Problems with Facebook entries?

November 30th, 2005 · Comments Off

Future Problems with Facebook entries?-
”I would bet that in the 2016 election, somebody’s Facebook entry will come back to bite them,” Steve Jones, head of the communications department at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
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