It is all a part of loving the truth—which is why so many people say they want to share some informational tidbit they have read or heard: they want the truth to get out about something. However, if you don’t actually do the preparation to know and validate the truth of something ...
To Get It meant that you could see that joke, follow it through to the punchline, and find it funny. That’s why it’s so hard to reckon with the facts: because the loss of her is so terrible, and so inhumanly unfair, and because if she could have outlived herself, she would fi...
We sit in the lower bleachers, the entire circle of green in front of us. An Australian player muscles a ball toward the boundary. A ball that hits or bounces over the boundary at the edge of the field is four runs; a ball that crosses it on the fly is six. Some Aussie hits are ...
While this is unconventional in science, it is a simple way to remember some of the more important food principles. I have tried to the best of my ability, using the wisdom and insight from the scientific literature, to explain and simplify the many food phenomena and behaviors. I would ...
Is this “Bayesian Spam Filter Weirdness” real or just a statistical fluke caused by the fact that I’m paying attention to the amount of spam and therefore noticing it more. Or have I just been drinking too much Diet Coke? Reply
A decade ago, I was Chairman of the Board of a public company called TheStreet.com. It is still a public company but I have not been involved with the company for eight or nine years. The company raised a huge amount of money in its IPO in 1999 and then after the market broke in...
To start, it should be noted that it’s not just Diet Coke and Mentos that “react”; other carbonated beverages will also readily respond to the addition of Mentos. What’s going on here is that Mentos has thousands of small pores on its surface disrupting the polar attractions between th...
More than a foot of snow is on the ground, and it is below zero and the snow crunches under your feet as you walk. Snow is everywhere and the wind always feels like it's com- ing right at your front, never at your back. But that's where the similarities end. Here I can sit ...