Sentence of Dave

Warm and slushy on the slopes today-- Ian didn't last very long because he slipped and fell on some ice and bruised his knee on the edge...

According to this  new episode of Invisibilia , the patterns of your past don't predict your future-- or at least they can't progra...

If you want to get politically indignant about something more substantial than stupid Trump tweets,  listen to the newest episode of Planet ...

My fever is down . . . the Tamiflu seems to be working, but more importantly, I did some valuable things on my flu day: 1) watched the Net...

If you read Simler and Hanson's book The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life , you're going to have to get intros...

The search bar on this blog allows me to look back on my life and see if The History of Dave is repeating itself . . . and in regards to two...

I am making my way through Kevin Simler and Robin Hanson's book The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life . . . the the...

This week on The Test , the very highly educated Cunningham has the best words, the most beautiful words . . . and you'll have to figu...

I just finished the new Charles C. Mann book The Wizard and the Prophet  (including both appendices) and now I'm chock full of facts and...

My wife is in the home stretch of a "Biggest Loser" style weight loss gambling ring with a bunch of other women in town, and she...

If you want some ideas on how to get your son to excel in academics, read the first couple chapters of John Stuart Mill's Autobiography.

Yesterday when my wife got home from the grocery store, she saw Ian in the kitchen and asked him where I was and he said, "Dad is out w...

I feel like I'm living in some tri-state, upper-middle class version of a country song: yesterday we put the dog down; while I was diggi...

R.I.P. Sirius Black . . . a good boy until the end.

I got my just desserts for stripping the joy from NCAA gambling bracketology-- a couple of days ago, I decided filling out brackets for a NC...

The mantis shrimp has the most sophisticated visual system in the animal kingdom-- they have from 12 to 16 different kinds of rods and c...

The lottery has been often labeled a "tax on dumb people" and while picking brackets for the NCAA tournament is akin to this kind...

When I catch kids using cell-phones in class, why are they always texting their mother?

My dog-- ailing from Lymes-- still likes to walk, but he no longer wants to kill cats.

Last night during dinner preparation, I noticed something out of the ordinary: my wife was listening to some decent music (Andrew Bird) and ...