When is a bubble not a bubble?
Reading Time: < 1 minute Sealed Air announced a new addition to its line of protective mailers. But despite the Bubble Wrap brand name, these bubbles presumably won’t pop.
Read More When is a bubble not a bubble?On breaking records
Reading Time: < 1 minute I’ve never been much of a sportsman or a businessman, so records haven’t meant much to me. But I do want to mark this one–just for the record.
Read More On breaking recordsWeek in Review: Week 28
Reading Time: < 1 minute A productive week, with two major projects completed on schedule and two blog posts–including a return of the mysterious Rhetoric Referee. The Rhetoric Referee is an occasional mystery guest who takes apart the verbal tricks that politicians and debaters use to divert their opponents and deceive their audiences. He attempts to remain neutral, which in […]
Read More Week in Review: Week 28The ‘No True Scotsman’ fallacy
Reading Time: < 1 minute In logic and debate–and thus in politics–dealing with generalities can get you into trouble. How do you handle the exception that seems to disprove the rule?
Read More The ‘No True Scotsman’ fallacyUse it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without
Reading Time: 2 minutes My mother used to quote “an old saying” that she learned in her youth. It sounded like something from the Depression, but it was actually a World War II slogan. “Use it up, wear it out, make it do, do without.” An old saying? Most of us had never seen economic conditions like those in […]
Read More Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do withoutWeek in Review: Week 27
Reading Time: 2 minutes Getting back into practice isn’t as easy as it sounds. Like going off a diet or breaking training, dropping any good habit means you have to pick it up again. And again. And again. Having hard-and-fast deadlines helps. That’s why I’m writing this morning, because I’m trying to establish Saturdays at noon to account for […]
Read More Week in Review: Week 27Red, white, and blue
Reading Time: 2 minutes If I were a thread in the American flag, I’d be part of a white stripe below a red one, alongside the blue field. I hang with one color and stand by the other.
Read More Red, white, and blueWeek in review: Week 26
Reading Time: 2 minutes Here we are, halfway through the year, and I need to account for myself. I’ve posted only intermittently over the past 20 weeks. Partly that was because of the state of the world. I worked on projects, both personal and professional, that interfered with a three-days-a-week deadline. I was also dealing with a lack of […]
Read More Week in review: Week 26Which of these presidents is father to the National Parks?
Reading Time: < 1 minute All four–George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln–are honored on Mount Rushmore. But which planted the seed for the whole national park system? Roosevelt, the conservationist and activist, is most associated with the National Parks system. His legacy of national parks and monuments includes Crater Lake, Wind Cave, Mesa Verde, Devil’s Tower, Petrified […]
Read More Which of these presidents is father to the National Parks?‘Inventions that changed history’ gets bubbly reviews
Reading Time: < 1 minute The reviews of “Inventions That Changed History” on Discovery+ are rolling in, and … I’m not in them. But they haven’t burst my bubble.
Read More ‘Inventions that changed history’ gets bubbly reviews