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Matt Ridley, in his new book The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves , does a fantastic job of debunking the prevailing pessimism fro...

Season 3 of Breaking Bad and Season 4 of Madmen both use the same conceit to add tension, pain, and drama: an ex-wife that stays in the p...

I've been recommending Malcolm Gladwell's books to my wife for years, and she's never read one-- but last week I saw her readin...

Apparently, I was not having alcohol induced vestibular problems while stand-up paddle boarding on the Raritan Friday morning . . . I took ...

Stand up paddle-boarding the morning after a late night of pool and darts at the Corner Tavern wasn't such a good idea . . . but the mur...

Twenty years ago James Gleick's book Chaos yanked me from the morass of post-modern fiction into the world of deftly written science, ...

Accuracy is only one strategy among many that an idea may use to survive.

I like the premise of the blog 20th Century Motors and the author makes a compelling case as to why the hypothesis "College Basketball...

My wife has no idea how to start summer vacation, and so instead of swimming, reading, watching movies, and going out to lunch, she is pain...

So although I have no memory of this brainstorming session-- it was after a long day of imbibing while building a deluxe adjustable baske...

Though finding meaning in coincidences is an absurd past-time, as we are subjected to an enormous amount of stimuli every waking moment, and...

My adult league soccer team played the predominantly Jamaican team in the first round of the playoffs last week-- and, unfortunately, we pul...

In his book Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism , Ha-Joon Chang accuses wealthy countries and their ...

If you want to see a deaf mute kill a gangster's trigger-man with a fly rod, or a gun moll betray a private dick, or Robert Mitchum and...

Matt Ridley's new book The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves reminds us that even though many people are professing the end of...

While the extensive media coverage of Governor Christie's use of the State Helicopter to go to his son's baseball game is bi-partis...

I overheard a conversation between my two sons while we were driving to Grounds for Sculpture ; Ian-- who is six-- emphatically professed hi...

Are you supposed to cheer when Raymond Shaw shoots his Communist Red Queen mother at the end of The Manchurian Candidate ?

Nearly twenty year's ago at my friend Jason's first wedding, I ended my rambling, extemporaneous, and generally incoherent best-man...

Aside from this incident -- which doesn't count because it happened while I was running a high fever-- I hadn't received a traffic t...