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Posts published in “Past Opinion Columns”

Philosopher Garry Dobbins Defends His Calling

My last five columns explored philosophy’s purpose. The series was provoked, in part, by the claim of physicist Stephen Hawking that science has rendered philosophy obsolete as a truth-seeking method.

A model is better than a weather rock

Last week we had the biggest snowstorm in the area in at least the past 10 years – but how did technology play a role in forecasting this event, and what’s with these “models” that the newscasters kept talking about?

The great green tea cream

I’ll be celebrating my birthday a few days after this piece is published. For some reason, I seem to frequently celebrate my birthday with Chinese food, so I figured I’d write about a rather unique place in Chinatown I found out about nearly a decade ago (yikes, I feel so old!).

Midtown Philly Steaks

While I’ve been to plenty of restaurants, I usually only try to review places that I haven’t been to before. After all, Stevens is all about innovation (does that count?)

Stayin’ Alive

This week, let’s move to technology integration in a field that tons of people have an interest in study: biology and medicine.

New York: a wet dream

In honor of the third Hoboken water main break of the year, I’m going to write about an odd and underappreciated benefit of New York: the water.