Based on my experience driving cross-country on ethanol, I was contacted by Nature.com to have a conversation for their Climate Change Podcast about alternative energy. I played the role of the token “conscientious consumer.” Check out the podcast (mp3), and listen up to hear the dulcet tones of my voice around the 17:45 mark (feel [...]

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Here’s another piece I just posted over at Huffington Post titled “Victims Of Push Polling Speak Out And Organize.”
It’s a follow-up to the previous post on political telemarketing, “Cell Phone-only Voters Frustrate Campaigns.”

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I posted two more pieces to the Huffington Post.The first one is all about presidential campaign music, and what songs today’s youth think the candidates should be playing at their events.Leave a comment over at the Huff Po with what song you’d play if you were running for president.I also posted a review of CAUCUS!: [...]

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I wrote something for the Huffington Post about political telemarketing. Check it out if you’ve got a second, and feel free to leave a comment over there.
I wrote a paper about telemarketing this semester, so I guess I covered something that was still marinating in my mind.
Oh, and check out my travel colleague’s pieces too!
Road [...]

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I’m headed to Iowa to cover the caucuses next week for the Huffington Post.
If you’ve got any friends (or, friends of friends) in Iowa pretty please hook me up with their contact information. I am especially interested in getting in touch with them if they are younger folks involved in the political process in any [...]

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I’m up in the city for a New York minute. Give me a holla if you’re in town and reading this.
Headed downtown in a second to finish up my last paper of the semester. If you’re in the area, or have any insight about WHOIS privacy, the First Amendment, and anonymous speech rights, feel free [...]

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“Why do you want to travel to Israel?” asks the El Al security agent just prior to my departing flight. Thousands of answers run through my mind, but the one that reaches my tongue is “To see the sights I’ve learned about since I was a child.”
I’m back, and I took plenty of photos and [...]

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I will be in Israel for the next 2 weeks.
I did not want to go on this trip until there was peace in the Middle East; however, I also wanted to go in this lifetime.
I meant to write more before I left, but chances are I’ll probably have a lot more interesting things to share [...]

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If a bus is traveling at 65 mph, and it’s emitting a wireless internet with a data rate of 9.2kb/sec , does an email get sent faster if the bus accelerates? I am living a high school physics pop quiz question right now, en route from DC to NYC on a bus that offers free [...]

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Video vignettes from the past fortnight in July. Enjoy.

July Fortnight from themarkpike and Vimeo.

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