Monthly Archives: April 2017

UC Irvine Return on Investment by Major for Your College Degree

PayScale has put out its Return On Investment (ROI) results for twenty years after graduation for 2017.  It computes an overall graduate ROI, and separate ROIs for eight majors or groups of majors.  The PayScale ROI website is http://www.payscale.com/college-roi The … Continue reading

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Environmentalists Welcome Jeff Sessions’ Special Status for Water Bordered States

Thank you Attorney General Jeff Sessions for recognizing and defending the special status of states that are Islands, or on the Pacific or Atlantic or Gulf of  Mexico or Bering or Chukchi or Beaufort or Gulf of Alaska sea coasts, … Continue reading

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A Conversation With Edward O. Thorp at the Beckman Center

A Conversation With Edward O. Thorp at the Beckman Center   I watched a Conservation with Edward O. Thorp at the Beckman Center of the National Academies of Science and Engineering in Irvine, California, on April 20, 2017.   He … Continue reading

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Kim Jong-Un’s Tin Can Parade

Kim Jong-Un’s Tin Can Parade   The last place I want to be is in a reviewing stand with thousand mile range missiles filled with highly explosive liquid rocket fuel driving closely by. Especially if there are thousands of youth … Continue reading

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Dedication of UC Irvine’s Rowland Hall as a National Historic Chemical Landmark

On April 18, 2017, F. S. Rowland Hall at UC Irvine, our first Chemistry building, was dedicated as a National Historic Chemical Landmark by the American Chemical Society. Here, in 1974, atmospheric chemists F. Sherwood Rowland and Mario Molina showed … Continue reading

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Trump and Brain Drains

Trump and Brain Drains Somehow, Dictators are associated with Brain Drains.  In historical cases, it is not just dislike for dictators, not just secondary effects of a dictator’s policies, but actual purges carried out by the dictator against academics and … Continue reading

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Comparison of North Korean and South Korean Militaries

Comparison of North Korea and South Korea Militaries, or, a Real Waste for Both of Their Countries   In my attitudes, I don’t know if I am a pacifist, or a humanitarian, or a utilitarian, but I think that the … Continue reading

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Can There Be a Limited Armament, Negotiable Solution with North Korea?

Can There Be a Limited Armament, Negotiable Solution with North Korea?   We seem to think only of an all or nothing solution to the atomic bomb and missile development with North Korea. The other type of option is limits … Continue reading

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The Trump White House Visiting Rules

The Trump White House Visiting Rules Remember the First Rule of the Trump Administration:  We don’t follow ANY rules. You are required to don the ski mask that we sent you at least two miles from the White House, and … Continue reading

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Reliving the Cuban Missile Crisis

Reliving the Cuban Missile Crisis   During the Cuban Missile Crises, Oct. 16, 1962 to Oct. 28, 1962 I was a senior at UCLA. Russia was delivering supposedly hidden nuclear tipped missiles to Cuba, and President Kennedy was blockading Cuba … Continue reading

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