The other day I was escorting a prospect through the firm’s lobby. There were several people there, including another attorney who was talking with an attractive woman in her forties, and this attorney said, “You might want to talk to… Continue Reading
I just learned yesterday that it may well be that one of the most dangerous things a doctor can do is wear a tie around patients. This is unfortunate, because wearing a tie lends a degree of gravity, authority, and… Continue Reading
While you sleep, you sweat, and that leaves water in your mattress. Unmade beds dry faster than made beds because the water has more places to escape to the air. So if you make your bed every morning, you’ll wind… Continue Reading
Tonight and tomorrow night, if you live in the northern hemisphere (particularly a more northerly latitude), be sure to go out and look for the aurora borealis. A strong sunspot has ejected a jet of plasma directly towards the Earth… Continue Reading
I caught the tail end of the President’s address from the Oval Office tonight on NPR as I drove home. It’s hard to believe that he’s been in office over a year and not before used this vehicle for communicating… Continue Reading
In 1961, President John F. Kennedy challenged America to adopt a national goal of sending people to the Moon and bringing them safely back to Earth. Over the next eight years, many different parts of the government, and a lot… Continue Reading
Norman Borlaug was a scientist from Iowa, who has probably saved more lives than anyone else in history. Norman came from a farm family in Iowa, and went to college on an athletic scholarship during the Great Depression. He studied… Continue Reading
And here I was today beginning to question the limits of my intelligence. Not so fast. TL!
You are not immune to this. Neither am I, neither is anyone. Your cultural world view shades, often overtly and powerfully, what you think is real. In other words, facts have ideologies. But it’s more than that. Nudge-like, the manner… Continue Reading