Hard is the word I would use to describe the current situation [Read more]
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I did not greet my wakeup call with luxurious stretches and an “all is right with the world” sigh. [Read more]
Failing to do so will sink us. [Read more]
The cheese product is shelf-stable, but the book itself might not have stayed on the shelf for long. [Read more]
Today I ran across a new entry in the field of maps-not-as-bad-as-Mercator, [Read more]
You might expect me to have quite a number of pent-up posts ready to burst forth. But two very interesting things happened [Read more]
The sidewalks are wide and the streets are narrow. I paced off the width of their street, and my highly scientific measurements (calibrated with a sheet of A4 paper)[Read more]
With all that’s new and exciting in the world these days, 21st century humans might begin to think that almost every truly remarkable innovation has happened on our watch. Look! We’ve got carbon nanotubes! Self-driving cars! 3-D printed food! I don’t want to take away from these modern marvels, but I have to say, while we were in Germany recently, we saw a wonder that could turn the world around. [Read more]
There’s nothing quite like a good mind stretch. Malcolm Gladwell puts it this way: “You’re never more alive than when things get turned upside down.” Whether you think of it as an expansion or an inversion [More….]
Four in the morning is generally not a good time, whether you’re coming at it from a long night, or meeting it as the start of what will likely be an unconscionably long day. [Read more]
