My father, the President
adminDad has been going on and on about his recent election to the local Golden Kiwanis volunteer club in Loveland, Colorado. Loveland is a great town, and people like Dad,…
Making Decisions
Jonah Lehrer over in Boston writes about how people make decisions. The most famous decider is in the White House, and goes with his gut, to the exclusion of obvious…
Voting and Elections
There are elections in the US coming up soon, and it looks likely that there will be elections here in Japan as well. I'm really saddened that in both of…
Online Professors for Free
New York Times has an article about the best of online professors. Now that many universities are making their lectures available online for free, sometimes directly and sometimes through services…
Boycott Thomson Reuters
I use an excellent program for research, called Zotero. It helps me catalog everything I find about my research subjects into one easily accessed place. One of the best features…