I’ve always assumed that the people who read my Web site are “smarter than the average bear.”
For those of you who aren’t baby boomers, that’s a reference to Yogi Bear, a cartoon character from my childhood.
Anyway, along with my belief about this site’s readers, I’ve also always believed several other things about intelligence and the human brain.
As an intelligent person, you probably [more...]
What would you guess is humanity’s biggest killer every year?
War?
Cancer?
Heart disease?
Nope, the number of deaths caused by those things pales in [more...]
I’ll give you some clues, and you try to guess the product that I’m thinking about:
Of course you guessed “honey.”
Everyone knows what honey is.
But most people don’t realize that [more...]
If you really care about your teeth and gums, you probably do a lot of tasks at least twice every day, to clean and protect them:
Brush them with fluoride toothpaste.
Use an antiseptic mouthwash.
Floss between your teeth. [more...]
“To err is human — to really mess things up requires a computer.”
That’s a popular old saying.
But it’s usually not a computer’s fault when something gets really messed up.
It’s almost always the fault of a computer programmer or computer user.
Because, computers are [more...]
Every day at work, I do things that improve other people’s lives.
So I get a lot of satisfaction from my job.
One of the other things that I really appreciate about it is the fact that I have a short commute.
In sharp contrast, back in the days when I was a [more...]
“Tick, tick, tick… That’s the sound of your life running out.”
Fans of the TV show, Dexter, probably recognize that line from several Season Five episodes.
Back when I was working on my undergraduate and Masters degrees, my mentor was a man whose father had died of questionable circumstances at a young age.
So my friend had no idea how long his [more...]
Anyone who has spent much time reading my personal adventures on this Web site knows that I’ve dealt with some pretty rough characters over the years.
Including liars, cheaters, narcissists, violent people, addicts and mentally ill people.
But, if you had asked, I probably would have told you that I’ve never known a psychopath.
However, today, I saw that the World English Dictionary [more...]