A long time ago, in high school, I devoured math classes. Interesting, even very cool, numbers fascinated me. I still love the trigonometry of sailing - though usually with my instruments turned off so that my senses and my instincts are turned on. I use...
Is nice a compliment? A dismissal? A distraction? A lack of a better adjective?
When Craig shared the story in the video, I fell in love with the concept, pulling back the curtain on the perils...
Bill Bryson is a marvelous writer. And a blazingly curious thinker. The Body: A Guide for Occupants, has kept me from sleep on more than one evening. Here's one of his nuggets: It seems that the human body contains about 30,000,000,000,000 living cells. That sounded like a lot to me so I tried counting to...
About 900 years ago, more or less, the king of Sicily - a fellow named Frederick II - decided he could conduct an experiment. We know that, among other darknesses, people with too much power lose a couple of important things: Empathy and Impulse Control. Fred was no exception.
He surmised...