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Thanksgiving is coming soon.  I looked up some fascinating statistics for the holiday.  Did you know the average person will consume 3000 calories in the Thanksgiving meal?  That number...

I watched a TED Talk online a while back from David Allen.  He is the man behind the “Getting Things Done” movement, also called GTD.  In the talk he says it all started on a boat he and his...

Halloween is a special time for a lot of people.  In some ways it is the friendliest holiday.  What other holiday encourages you to meet complete strangers in their homes?  And it has grown...

I recently went to a wedding of a family friend.  The timing of this was bold, as we were right in the middle of college football season.  Fall weddings are beautiful, though, and my favorite...

Let’s talk about golf.  Did you know that golf courses take up about 2 million acres in the US?  If you put all the golf courses together it would be larger that the state of Delaware. ...

What is intelligence?  And how do we teach a subject so that people really learn it?  These were the questions on the mind of Benjamin Bloom, Max Englehart, Edward Furst, Walter Hill, and David...

Fall is here.  I love this season.  I look forward to the colors and cooler weather.  I like the holidays and fall sports too.  There are so many iconic things about Fall.  And...

You may have heard of the trolley problem.  This is a now famous ethics problem wherein we are asked to study the effects of right and wrong in a no-win situation.  It goes like this.  Suppose...

Why are so many college buildings named after people?   Have you ever noticed that?  Go to just about any school and walk around.  Look at the buildings.  They are almost all named...

Do you make todo lists?  I sure do.  I make them for work around the house.  I make them for my job.  I make them when I plan for a major event.  You probably do to (or at least...