Walk into a bank with a stocking on your head and you’re probably going to get arrested. Civil society as we know it is dependent...
One reason we have so much trouble fixing chronic degenerative conditions is that we need to remove elements before we can start building new functions....
A cat’s eye is smooth but doesn’t seem to be… there’s a mystery of depth. That illusion is called chatoyancy. The same is true for...
This page intentionally left blank has a long history. I thought it was an IBM thing from the 1960s, but I was off by a...
Amazon is the last one. They are probably the last huge company where hundreds of thousands of people will be surveilled, measured and ordered to...
Salt is essentially free. A bag of salted nuts is the same price (or less) as an unsalted one. But salt used to be expensive....
We don’t design a book until after it’s written. Or cast the movie until the screenplay is complete. The house painter has an important job,...
All the no-compromise solutions have failed. If there was a way to solve our problem without giving something up, we would have done that already....
Vitally important, rarely taught, easily messed up. In order to go onto the next thing, which we all do (unless you’re still wearing pajamas with...
Pop culture depends on scarcity. When there are only a few TV stations or a dozen radio stations, it’s likely that many of us watch...