My Brother’s Keeper
2014-01-12 – A favorite idea, at least in the popular press, is that kin selection tends to make us cooperate more with close family members and compete more with […]
Tag Archives: Culture
Carpal Shovel Syndrome
2014-01-05 – Oy! A couple days ago, I noticed my wrist was hurting. I couldn’t imagine what was causing the pain. I usually get the pain in my right wrist, […]
Stocks Fall—OMG!
2013-01-02 – The first day of trading in 2014 saw stocks fall 135 points. The apocalypse is upon us. After all, stocks haven’t fallen on the first day of trading […]
An Instrument of God
2013-12-31 – My friend Bob likes to say we are instruments of god. This is a hard one for me because I don’t believe in a god that is an […]
Going Cold Turkey
2013-12-26 – It’s the morning after. I still can barely move. The scale is up four pounds. It doesn’t even make sense based on the number of calories I ate—and […]
Chinese Christmas
2013-12-24 – Merry Christmas! My parents had a tough time saying this. To be honest, I did too, once. In some ways, it was a mirror image of the […]
Free Content
2013-12-22 – We’ve all heard the lament that the Internet has fragmented the body politic by letting people choose their sources of information. Liberals read liberal sources, conservatives read […]
Profanity Socks
2013-12-19 – “[P]rofanity and obscenity entitle people who don’t want unpleasant information to close their ears and eyes to you.” So the language police are busy debating how the […]
Hit and Run
2013-12-17 – My son Nat was victim of a hit and run last night. He’s not hurt, but his car is. The guy was driving a white pickup truck […]
My Favorite Books
2013-12-15 – Every so often you see a thing go around Facebook asking you to pick your 10 favorite books. Or the 10 books most significant in your life. […]
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