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    What is the best size of eggs?
    Quoc Tran
    • Aug 10, 2019
    • 4 min

    What is the best size of eggs?

    Eggs come in different sizes. In this way and many others, eggs are similar to pants. Eggs not only come in different sizes but in...
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    Facebook Launches an Automated Stalking Feature Across its Services
    Quoc Tran
    • Jun 6, 2019
    • 2 min

    Facebook Launches an Automated Stalking Feature Across its Services

    In a post on Tuesday morning, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the launch of a new service across the social media giants Facebook,...
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    Scientists say eating your neighbors could solve global warming
    Quoc Tran
    • May 10, 2019
    • 2 min

    Scientists say eating your neighbors could solve global warming

    Countless studies in recent decades have pointed to climate change as a very real threat with possibly disastrous effects. Scientists...
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    Are we skipping too many rocks?
    Quoc Tran
    • Apr 8, 2019
    • 4 min

    Are we skipping too many rocks?

    Skipping rocks is a uniquely human activity. There is no evidence any other animal engages in such an activity, though, admittedly, I...
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    Local Student Pledges to Join Clubs and Attend Office Hours Next Quarter
    Quoc Tran
    • Mar 14, 2019
    • 2 min

    Local Student Pledges to Join Clubs and Attend Office Hours Next Quarter

    Local third-year engineering student Abigail Nelson recently promised herself that she would be more proactive in her college experience...
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    UCSD to Shut Down Over Parking
    Quoc Tran
    • Feb 7, 2019
    • 2 min

    UCSD to Shut Down Over Parking

    The Associated Students Council adjourned at 7:26 p.m., failing to pass a resolution to secure funding for the quarter. UC San Diego will...
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    An Open Letter to my Congressman
    Quoc Tran
    • Jan 3, 2019
    • 3 min

    An Open Letter to my Congressman

    Dear Representative Peters, I am writing as one of your constituents to discuss a matter that affects me, my community, and the citizens...
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    US Flag Lowered to Half-Mast Permanently
    Quoc Tran
    • Dec 8, 2018
    • 2 min

    US Flag Lowered to Half-Mast Permanently

    Following the mass shooting on Tuesday, the mass shooting on Wednesday, and the mass shooting on Thursday, President Donald Trump...
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    New Starbucks Cups Anger Groups
    Quoc Tran
    • Dec 8, 2018
    • 2 min

    New Starbucks Cups Anger Groups

    The greatly anticipated annual designs for Starbucks’ 2018 holiday cups have finally arrived, and this year, they reportedly feature...
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    Fourth-Year Student Discovers Textbooks Have More Than Just Homework Codes
    Quoc Tran
    • Nov 1, 2018
    • 2 min

    Fourth-Year Student Discovers Textbooks Have More Than Just Homework Codes

    Stacey Calderon, a fourth-year student at UC San Diego, reportedly discovered that her textbooks contained more than just codes to access...
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    Elevator open and close buttons are confusing.
    Quoc Tran
    • Aug 20, 2018
    • 3 min

    Elevator open and close buttons are confusing.

    Elevators have buttons. This is a commonly-known fact. They have many buttons; in fact, buttons are probably the primary feature of an...
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    Professors Prepare To Return to Void for Summer
    Quoc Tran
    • Jun 7, 2018
    • 2 min

    Professors Prepare To Return to Void for Summer

    UC San Diego professors prepare to return to the void as the Spring 2018 quarter draws to a close. Professors who aren’t teaching during...
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    The United States Imposes Sanctions on the United States
    Quoc Tran
    • Jun 7, 2018
    • 2 min

    The United States Imposes Sanctions on the United States

    President Trump announced Tuesday that the United States would impose economic sanctions on the United States. These sanctions are the...
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    For the Dismantling of Robots
    Quoc Tran
    • May 12, 2018
    • 4 min

    For the Dismantling of Robots

    It’s no secret that robots are bad. To prevent the elimination of human existence, it is important that we destroy the robots before they...
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    On Streetlights
    Quoc Tran
    • May 5, 2018
    • 3 min

    On Streetlights

    Once a modern miracle of engineering and innovation, streetlights now crowd every street in every town across the United States....
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    How little money can one have?
    Quoc Tran
    • Apr 1, 2018
    • 2 min

    How little money can one have?

    Besides having no money or being in debt, it seems that, in U.S. dollars at least, a penny would be the least amount of money it could be...
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    Milk cap colors are not standardized.
    Quoc Tran
    • Mar 15, 2018
    • 4 min

    Milk cap colors are not standardized.

    Recently I picked up a jug of milk, unscrewed the cap, poured a nice cold glass of milk. Milk in one hand and a cookie in the other, I...
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    Elon Musk Unveils All-Electric Attack Helicopter
    Quoc Tran
    • Mar 15, 2018
    • 3 min

    Elon Musk Unveils All-Electric Attack Helicopter

    Following the success of the Roadsters, Tesla’s line of all-electric luxury cars, Tesla CEO and co-founder Elon Musk announced on...
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    Turnitin.com To Start Accepting Submissions by Fax
    Quoc Tran
    • Mar 15, 2018
    • 2 min

    Turnitin.com To Start Accepting Submissions by Fax

    Starting April 2018, Turnitin.com, the popular plagiarism prevention tool used by many professors, will start accepting submissions by...
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    Let’s not spring forward.
    Quoc Tran
    • Mar 10, 2018
    • 3 min

    Let’s not spring forward.

    At 2am tomorrow morning in the United States, save for Hawaii, Arizona, and a handful of territories, Daylight Saving Time will start for...
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