Fruitful Detours
I went to Disneyworld recently, and spent a day at Epcot. I’m not really a ride person, so I go to a lot of their shows and indoor exhibits. We went to hear the Voices of Liberty at the American Adventure pavilion in the World Showcase. I love their harmonies, and they didn’t disappoint. For […]
I got some good advice recently from Austin Kleon: “A newsletter should be a letter.” So I thought I’d write you a letter, even though my blog isn’t technically a newsletter. (The word blog comes from a shortening of “weblog”, a logging of events on the web. A newsletter usually focuses on one topic, and […]
We had a storm come through our neighborhood, and it knocked out all the power. No lights, no TV, no refrigerator power. The storm was powerful enough to break the fake owl that we have out on our balcony to chase away the very real pigeons. The weather service said that there would be hail, […]
Statistics can be misleading. Marketers have become adept at using numbers to make their case, but we still need to be careful about how we interpret what they are telling us. In 2007, Colgate toothpaste was all over the media telling us, “80% of dentists recommend Colgate.” That was what the ads said. The number […]
Some of the most wonderful discoveries in science have been as a result of our being able to see things that are smaller than are possible to see with the naked eye. When I was studying biology as an undergraduate, I loved looking through a microscope at different kinds of cells. The cells were amazingly […]