Kevin Bae

Non-Social in a Socially Networked World

  • Science is creating vampires to stave off aging

    First they started with mice. The infusion of new blood led to a threefold increase in the number of new nerve cells generated in the brains of the elderly mice. But that was not the only revelation. He had already shown that the young members of the conjoined old-young mouse pairs generated far fewer new…

  • Doctors trained via video game

    This can’t be good. Of course I’m exaggerating a bit… but only a bit. Doctors are being trained using virtual rather than actual cadavers. For generations, medical students were initiated to their training by a ritual as gory as it was awe-inducing: the cadaver dissection. Since at least the 14th century, physicians have honed their…

  • China squatting on southeast Asian islands

    Instead of invading with their military China is simply using the strategy of squatting on the islands in the South China Sea. The goal is to accomplish by overwhelming presence what it has been unable to do through diplomacy or international law. And to an extent, it appears to be working. “Beijing pretty clearly thinks…

  • Pritzker expands Chicago Teachers Union power

    Good old JB is batting a thousand these days. As if the Chicago Teachers Union doesn’t already have enough power in the city the wise sage that is JB Pritzker decides to up the ante. The Chicago Teachers Union is lauding Gov. J.B. Pritzker for restoring its ability to bargain with the city over issues…

  • Illinois Governor JB Pritzker increases pension obligations

    How do you take a pension system that is only 18.4% funded and make it solvent? Well, you make the pensions more generous of course. Previously, a Chicago firefighter born on or after Jan. 1, 1966, would receive a non-compounding annual 1.5% cost-of-living adjustment to his or her pension, with a lifetime limit of 30%.…

  • MLB moves All Star Game from mostly black Atlanta to mostly white Denver

    Major League Baseball infamously cancelled the All-Star Game in Atlanta, Georgia supposedly because of “racist” changes to voting laws in Georgia. It’s being reported today they moved the game to Denver. Is this move racist? Denver is 91% white while Atlanta is 51% black. I think MLB was being pragmatic in their move. They did…

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