Sentence of Dave

Let us all take a moment of silence to reflect on the good things in life and their inevitable passing into the great beyond . . . specifica...

Tinawaren-- the Taureg band that hails from a Libyan refugee camp-- has a new album ( Elwan ) and Kurt Vile makes a guest appearance ...

This week on The Test , Cunningham starts it and Stacey and I finish it . . . or we try our very best; despites some bizarre asides, we&#...

My dog does not like water, and he's never happy about getting a bath-- and he has an uncanny sense of when I'm going to give him on...

Steven Johnson's book Wonderland: How Play Made the Modern World  is full of weird and wonderful facts that I will soon forget (e.g. the...

An evening to go down in infamy: last night, I was coaching the grade 6-8 town basketball team-- both my kids play on the same team and my b...

A fun Tversky and Kahneman finding that's easy to test on your own is the "regression to the mean"  fallacy-- the super-duo o...

I'm probably constructing an illogical metaphor here-- perhaps Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman are more like Sonny and Cher or Sam and ...

Everyone loves POTUS before and after pics -- look how the job aged him!-- but I think we need to look at some pictures of regular peo...

Robert D. Putnam pointed out in his latest book   Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis  that poor kids with very high grades and test scor...

Melt away those little town blues this week on The Test   and see what you know about all things New York City ( if you're pressed for...

Just jumped a guy's car at the park . . . his cable wasn't long enough (and the clamp broke off-- he said "Haram" in respo...

I had to stop interacting with Stacey at work today because I kept revealing clues as to the questions I am going to ask her tonight when we...

I am home, drinking a beer, and proud that I didn't lose my shit after an epically long day rambling around central Jersey: taught Shake...

Virtuoso mandolinist  Chris Thile and experimental jazz pianist Brad Mehldau have released a spectacular sounding eponymous album-- Mehl...

Last week in the English Office, my friend, colleague, and age-twin Liz wondered aloud about the origin of the phrase "pushing the enve...

We saw the Harlem Globetrotters last night at the RAC, and they performed as-billed, putting on a spectacular circus-like performance in the...

In Philosophy class last week, I introduced my new students to the idea of a heuristic-- a quick and dirty problem-solving technique that so...

The streets and sidewalks in Highland Park were very icy this morning-- I almost fell while walking the dog-- and on my way to work, as I wa...

The trick with fake news and disinformation is to mix the real story with so many lies, alternatives, and obfuscations that it becomes exhau...