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A brief history of bullshit (book review)
In my work as an oceanographer and climate scientist, I’ve come across numerous people who spread misinformation with seeming disregard for truth. Entrepreneurs seeking startup funds, internet personalities looking for relevance, and politicians putting out fires all have reasons to pretend they know more than is true. However, few people are truly equipped with the…
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Did Mexico truly have a revolution?
This is an essay I wrote for the course “Modern Mexico”, taught on Spring of 2021 by Prof. Matthew Vitz at UC San Diego. The Mexican Revolution, understood as the series of transformations spanning from 1910 to 1940, drastically reshaped the nation’s social, economic, and political affairs. Military conflicts between revolutionary factions started in 1910…