[Recipe] Chicken Tikka Masala

Disclaimer: this recipe is based on one from thekitchn.com, but with a few slight modifications made that dramatically improve the quality of the dish, in the author's opinion.  I had never had Indian food until a few years ago, but I became pretty quickly hooked on it, thanks to this dish. Chicken Tikka Masala is perhaps the…

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I get asked this question a lot from my non-engineer friends and family members, and I've probably done a pretty bad job of answering it over the years. To be honest, it was a question that I myself once had, even after a few years in engineering school. I knew what I was doing in…

You Don't Actually Hate "Stupid" People

We've seen them in our Facebook feeds, in news stories, in YouTube comments, and even sometimes in real life. We ask ourselves, "how can someone be so stupid?" "How can someone be so ignorant?" "Why do they not see the world as I see it?" We rant about these people to our friends. We talk about how…