Tuesday, July 30th, 2013
When I was a kid, my friends and I built a tree fort in the woods out behind the last suburb of town. On the front door we hung a sign that said, “No girls allowed.” Why there would be any girls walking around the woods we didn’t know. What was so special about the
Sunday, July 28th, 2013
The great thing about science is that it is true for everyone. The terrible thing is that it’s not always true right away. One-year science says avocados are bad for you, and the next year science says...
Monday, July 22nd, 2013
You might have noticed that for the past 50 years or so, the healthcare industry has been saying that saturated fat is bad. They’ve blamed it for heart disease, obesity, Alzheimer’s and so on. Meanwhile, the rates...
Wednesday, July 17th, 2013
In the never-ending quest to make things affordable, I’ve decided to ‘go big’ and get a free Ferrari. I wouldn’t want to be called greedy, so therefore there will be free Ferraris for everyone. I suspect that...
Tuesday, July 16th, 2013
Rest easy citizen, Ohio Attorney General Mike Dewine is here to protect you from the evils of coffee (cups). Apparently there is not enough crime in Ohio to keep Dewine busy, so instead he has invested his...
Monday, July 15th, 2013
Niels Finsen was 20 years old when the doctors told him that the lumps in his testes were metastatic. After a year of painful treatments, they said that it was hopeless; Niels had only six more months...
Thursday, July 11th, 2013
I recently did some work for an organization called, “The Girl Effect.” As you can probably guess, it’s a program designed to help girls. There are many such programs like: Girls Inc, Girl Up, Hardy Girls, and...
Sunday, July 7th, 2013
Air travel is generally safe, but not 100% safe. Sometimes equipment fails, sometimes the weather interferes, and sometimes humans err. In his 2009 book, Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell examined a particular type of human error in a chapter...
Saturday, July 6th, 2013
Our ancestors evolved in the sun, so it is only natural that we require sunlight to be healthy. But most people are deficient in the sunshine vitamin, vitamin D, because they have been scared sunless. For decades...
Wednesday, July 3rd, 2013
When I was about four years old, my parents gave me a toy piano. Up until that moment, I had been able to figure out just about anything, but it soon became quite clear to me that...
Monday, July 1st, 2013
373,000 people ride BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) every day, but not today. People who live in the East Bay and work in San Francisco are especially hit hard, as they have to choose between swimming six...
Wednesday, June 19th, 2013
People want to eat healthy, or at least they say they do, but how many people actually take the time to figure what is healthy or not? Here’s a hint: just because the label says it’s “healthy”...
Tuesday, June 18th, 2013
Kieth Barry shows us how our brains can deceive us. I’m not really sure how he does what he does, I guess I’ve been fooled.
Saturday, July 13th, 2013
Sum Ting Wong? Yes…
In medieval times the court jester was there to say things that no one else would dare. To point out truths, lurking right before the eyes. And so it was yesterday, when someone played an ill-timed prank...