Blog
12/24/17
Punch List for America-- A Tool for Focusing Our Thinking and Conversation
12/20/17
The Miracle of the Car - Part Four - The Miracle of Oil
12/19/17
How can you tell a passage is by Shakespeare, Hamilton or Madison?
12/16/17
Squash: Video, Exaggerate, Dance!
12/15/17
Bronze Doors: from the Supreme Court of the United States to the Gates of Paradise of the Baptistry in Florence
12/14/17
Picking the right metric is everything - the case of railroads
12/13/17
The Miracle of the Car - Part Three - Transmission - boring? No way!
12/12/17
Demographic Denial - Automation, Ecological Catastrophe, Aging and a Falling Fertility Rate
12/08/17
Six problems with comparing student performance across boarders...
12/06/17
The Miracle of the Car - Part Two - The Seven Subsystems of the Internal Combustion Engine
12/05/17
"The Common Place Book - Time for a Renaissance!
12/02/17
The American Dream: what is it? what is the biggest gap between it and America today?
11/29/17
What makes a car go? what should every 4th grader know? 8th grader? 12th grader? college graduate? what do you know?
11/21/17
An update on the minimum wage: feels good, sounds good, in practice not really - pink slips and smaller pay checks.
11/21/17
"Ichi go ichie e" - a Japanese expression meaning every meeting is a once in a lifetime opportunity (and how to use it)
11/20/17
Should blood pressure targets be lowered? what is the math behind the claim?
11/17/17
Favorite TV Shows
11/09/17
The health care issue is mis-framed - the real issue is not health care or health insurance it is health.
11/04/17
Getting from Point A to Point B on a squash court can be Counter-intuitive
11/01/17
Hurricanes: It's About the Water, Not the Wind...
10/28/17
Should it be required K-12? Favorite dancers? Greatest Dancer Ever? Greatest Dance? Dance highlights of your life?
10/27/17
The Three Greatest Obstacles to Achieving Equality of Opportunity in America
10/27/17
Trees in Harvard Yard
10/26/17
The Greatest Paragraph of All Time
10/21/17
Squat or Push-Up?
10/15/17
Do judges and juries matter any more?
10/10/17
Mammograms and Physician Statistical Illiteracy
10/05/17
Guitar Oddities
10/04/17
Politicization kills conversation
10/03/17
The Plate Tectonics Revolution
10/03/17
A Poem Every College Graduate Should Know
10/02/17
Simpson's Paradox
09/28/17
Musical autobiography - Guitar Phase
09/25/17
What are the three most original ideas on this site?
09/25/17
What is the goal of the Liberal Arts Academy?
09/23/17
The Three Keys to Maximizing Fitness
09/22/17
Learning to Draw
09/21/17
Country Music: Stuff Worth Remembering
09/14/17
Tritones and Sub5s sound complicated but they are super cool and super fun.
09/02/17
Art Day: the blind men and the elephant
09/01/17
Best Fitness Tip Ever: the proper angle of the head
09/01/17
The math of democracies and republics
08/31/17
Simpson's Paradox: How statistics can mislead
08/23/17
Education First Policy: Three Thoughts
08/14/17
Best paragraph written in human history?
08/13/17
Best science experiment selection algorithm?
08/12/17
Most under-appreciated song of the last 100 years?