Have you seen any of the Bourne series? If you have not — slight spoiler alert. In the first movie, The Bourne Identity, Jason Bourne is trained to be an …
Music! (Said in a Bill Nye voice) A recent study in Scientific American discusses how groups that sing together, pulse together. As a self-professed lover of music that has soul …
Yes, the Spanish be, not bee. Languages are wonderful tools for understanding how we see the world (see linguistic relativity). In high school (and to this day), one of the …
Charles Darwin and Adam Smith are highly regarded as individuals who promoted very rational ideas. Darwinian evolution, or “survival of the fittest”, could be understood as a mathematical way to …
(Originally posted on Blogspot on January 19, 2009) Today, while packed efficiently in the daladala with about 20 other passengers, I heard over the radio a short Obama intro followed …
(Originally posted on Blogspot on November 4, 2008) Sitting here watching the final moments of the campaign on CNN, I’m wondering how much I’ve actually learned about the candidates over …
(Originally posted on Blogspot on November 3, 2008) I sit here at home in sticky Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, watching the BBC countdown to the American presidential election. The two …
