Better than Plowing

This week, Busan, South Korea, is hosting final round negotiations over a legally-binding agreement designed to address the issue of plasti...

 Every year our teachers ask us to fill out  teacher reviews.  It seems to be in the best interest of teachers for us to fill these out, as ...

While watching Moneyball this weekend, I saw parallels between the A’s scouting department and some of the issues seen in bureaucracies we’v...

In Minneapolis, real estate developer Cody Fischer aimed to take down one big house and instead build an energy-efficient, four-story, 32 un...

A while ago at the beginning of the semester we talked about externalities. Externalities are a cost or benefit that affects a third party w...

My congresswoman (Yes, I know who it is, Professor Coppock) is Abigail Spanberger. Congresswoman Spanberger has represented VA-7 for the pas...

 After class today, I remembered hearing something a couple years ago that the military would have aircraft fly in circles for hours just to...

 Earlier this week, I attended a talk on geopolitics by Noah Rothman , organized by the Blue Ridge Center. Noah's main argument can be s...

 Earlier in the year we talked about pareto equilibriums with decision making. In one situation we had a triangle with each point representi...

Today in class I couldn’t help but chuckle to myself a little as Mr. Coppock started discussing Detroit Lion “ism” and how his mood can depe...

Tennis governance is fundamentally broken, with the four most prestigious tournaments- the Grand Slams - each having their own organizationa...

Amid all of the post-election analysis, I’ve heard a lot of talk about climate change and the future of the energy industry in the U.S. unde...

This week, President-elect Donald Trump nominated Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as his choice to run the Department of Health and Human Services. Wh...

Earlier this week my friend was complaining to me about a class which is about the topic she likes a lot, but she said the professor always ...

About three years ago in Atlanta, I started seeing "Buckhead City" signs in the yards of some of my neighbors, as well as around s...

         As the effects of pollution and climate change become increasingly visible, governments around the world are taking action. On Janu...

Over the past two months, I’ve been knee-deep in law school applications. Not only is my brain exhausted from crafting essay after essay, bu...

 Earlier in the year we talked about externalities which are byproducts of an action and can be positive or negative. A negative externality...

Growing up, I never played soccer because I thought it was un-American. That is a very true story. However, in recent years I've seen th...

 I, like many other Americans, found myself up until nearly 4 am on Tuesday night watching the election results. If you asked me why, I woul...

A few weeks ago in class, we posed the question: why do [rational] people vote? Because the expected return of one individual voting to elec...

  A couple of weeks ago, I had to head down to UNC Charlotte to present on the research I did this summer. Since it was my first time presen...

Over the past few weeks, leading up to our last couple of competitions in the fall season, my rowing boat got substantially faster very quic...

Our class discussed how a location model can be used to analyze how parties position themselves to acquire a majority. A classic Hotelling f...