In The Book Drop

Libraries are fascinating places. You can get a Master’s Degree by checking out books from the public library. You can check out items like telescopes and cameras and tablets. You can use the printers, 3D printers, copy machines, and computers. Sometimes, if you’re lucky, the library might have a fish tank. You can stare at …

It Starts With Someone

It starts with someone. In France there’s a cultural norm to regard corn as food fit only for swine. Humans don’t eat it—or rather, the French don’t eat it. Other cultures around the world have a different standard for corn. The French however, maintain that corn belongs to the pigs. If you happen to visit …

Childhood

Along with the magic of Christmas, there are a fair amount of benefits to childhood. You aren’t expected to know much, or be responsible for much, or even to lift much. Everyone around you expects very little of your little body. You are required to uphold all the laws of childhood, but even those aren’t …

Logic ladders

If a person thinks everyone should just turn off their cars and stop “idling”, then obviously the next step is also to stop driving slowly. Driving slowly is as close as it gets to running a car “in idle”. The next step would be deciding at what speed a car could not be mistaken as …