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December 24th, 2010 - 7:55 pm § in Politics, Science

Of Tea Parties, Pot, and Lysenko

Original date: 12 Dec 2010, updates Jan 23, 2011 Ain’t democracy wunnaful? In older systems, the king or dictator could rule his reality into truth. The Popes ruled the solar system into a geo centric orbit. Canute ruled the tides not to come in. Stalin ruled DNA out and dialectical materialis[...]

December 24th, 2010 - 9:33 am § in Misc., UW

Wide Receiver Wins Rhodes!

On the afternoon of the final game of the regular football season, Baltazar ‘Zar’ A. Zavala ’11 opened up a text message informing him that he had received a Rhodes Scholarship!  Zar was a walk on, During his first year at the university, Zavala walked on to the football team and reveled in t[...]