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Nuclear electricity offers both the prospect of using existing and well-understood technology to allow a halt to environmental damage caused by dirty carbon fuels and the prospect of a future of more energy, opportunity, technology, economic growth, and scientific progress. The benefits of clean energy are thus too great to ignore...

Author: By Daniel A. Handlin | Title: The Truth About Clean Energy | 5/7/2010 | See Source »

Best or worst lie you’ve ever told: Those pants make you look great...

Author: By FM Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Norman Zhu | 5/7/2010 | See Source »

...nothing by itself, but when placed in an essay on a specific subject very well might mean something to the grader. The true master of a generality is the man who can write a 10-page essay, which means nothing at all to him, and have it mean a great deal to anyone who reads it. The generality writer banks on the knowledge possessed by the grader, hoping the marker will read things into his essay...

Author: By Donald Carswell | Title: Beating the System | 5/7/2010 | See Source »

...brought empiricism to its logical extreme.” The question is asked, “Did the philosophical beliefs of Hume represent the spirit of the age in which he lived?” Our hero replies by opening his essay with, “David Hume, the great Scottish philosopher, brought empiricism to its logical extreme. If these be the spirit of the age in which he lived, then he was representative of it.” This generality expert has already taken his position for the essay. Actually he has not the vaguest idea of what Hume...

Author: By Donald Carswell | Title: Beating the System | 5/7/2010 | See Source »

...equivocator would answer it in this way: “Some people believe that David Hume was not necessarily a great philosopher because his thought was merely a reflection of the conditions around him, colored by his own personality...

Author: By Donald Carswell | Title: Beating the System | 5/7/2010 | See Source »

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