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Live Long and Prosper: Your Choice
A Swedish study of identical twins separated at birth and reared apart found that genes accounted for only 20 to 30 percent of a long…
December 15, 2010
Drama is for the Stage
Personal or relationship drama (i.e. non-literary) refers to a situation blown out of proportion, or one involving unnecessary emotional turbulence or even made-up conflict. Drama occurs for multiple…
July 5, 2022
The Scientific Method: Beliefs vs. Verifiable Facts
How do we know what is true? How do we resolve our doubts? In the physical world, we use the scientific method. At its most…
February 1, 2010
Training Shamu: Lessons for Humans
Amy Sutherland has written a short, amusing book called “What Shamu Taught Me About Life, Love, and Marriage: Lessons for People From Animals and Their…
July 8, 2008
Mental Trash: Are You Willing to Clean House?
Every week, the trash man comes by and hauls off unwanted stuff; broken stuff, stuff no longer useful. Wouldn’t it be terrific if we had…
January 15, 2015
“The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way”
“The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way,” by Amanda Ripley (Simon and Schuster; 320 pages: $28) Journalist Ripley tours the…
September 26, 2013
The Complaint Diet: Act or Accept but Never Complain
Don’t complain. Easier said then done, especially when you include mental complaints. Try it! I dare you to go on a “complaint diet”: 7 days,…
May 21, 2010
Beware the Thomas Becket Pitfall
In any organization, there is a natural desire to please one’s boss. In general, a good, even excellent thing. However, when rules are cast aside,…
March 24, 2022
The 2nd Question
After meeting a new person, after saying, “Hello, how are you?” what is the 2nd question? In America, it is generally some version of “What…
August 7, 2018
Brook’s Law: When More is Less
Brook’s Law: Adding manpower to a late software project only makes it even more late. Software programming is multi-faceted, difficult to successfully divide into discrete…
December 10, 2015