American culture is one of perpetual acceleration. It’s a culture of addition. It’s a culture of hyperbole and one-upmanship. When an American gets heartburn from eating too much, he doesn’t stop consuming things, he adds to it by popping a couple of antacid tablets. When making a sandwich, an American doesn’t stop with the lettuce …
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Why I Refuse To Do DST
(If you’re thinking this article is too long to read, there’s a summary. Scroll down and read that.) Let’s start with the name: Daylight Saving Time. It’s a misnomer. It may have to do with time, but it does not save daylight. We haven’t found any way to alter time at all, let alone bottle …
How To: Debate with Humor
I tell this joke a lot. It never really happened, but I tell the joke so much, I think people might get the idea that it really went down the way I tell it. So I was walking down the street and I see this friend of mine coming the other way. This friend of …
Chess Moves
It seems to me that a lot of scenes in life relate to chess moves in one way or another. You can definitely get farther if you know the moves. You can advance yourself further if you weave the concepts of chess moves into the fabric of your current mental constructs. To list them, there …
Science for the Young
Now is a great time to get our young men and women interested in science. Boys and girls of the next generation have a natural curiosity for how the laws of physics and chemistry shape their environment. Not only are they interested, but they’re very capable. They have a great capacity for scientific information. The …
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