About

The goal of It’s the Thought that Counts is to apply rationality and innovative thinking to current events and contemporary issues. I post on things I find interesting to write about, and which I hope you’ll find interesting to read and worth discussing in the comments. In this blog, you’ll find critical examinations of particular ideas and concepts we encounter in our daily lives — whether in politics, advertising, pop culture, science, or any other aspect of the Zeitgeist in general. A little bit of thinking goes a long way!

Your humble narrator goes by “Z” in these parts.

Z is a graduate student in physics. She follows developments in all branches of science as well as general scientific literacy issues. She’s also interested in a wide variety of other topics, from culture and society to law and policy. She enjoys webcomics and folk music, and would like to have a pet hedgehog someday.

 

There are older posts from back in the day when this blog was a joint venture. My former coauthor A is a graduate student in computer science, having previously studied math, economics, and political science. He is a bit of a political junkie, and has no shortage of other interests, including education, law, and philosophy. (Maybe he’ll come back eventually. We’ll see.)

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