I had been planning to write a nice, long post about time zones (sounds fascinating, huh?) with plenty of cool maps and funny jokes. But so many of you* sent me e-mails asking about a certain aspect of last weekend’s post that I decided to devote this weekend’s post to the answer. * “so many” [...]
Not a lot of time, so I”m going to present this weekend’s explanation in chart form. But first, an explanation. I was amazed by what I read in this article the other day. Without realizing it, I’d kind of assumed that doctors might be less likely than the general public to request heroic measures, but [...]
Nothing this week; work work is pressing. See you in October.
In the past I’ve written two of these posts on airplanes. Now this post is being written on a train. And it turns out that Metro-North seats present the same problem that plane seats do: the seat in front of you tilts toward you. This means that there’s plenty of room to rest a book [...]
Remember last weekend when I said my wife had been up all night working? Turns out she was writing an article on canine genetics for a magazine aimed at dog breeders. (And yes, she has finished the article and gotten back to a normal sleep schedule. Thank you all for your messages of concern and [...]
I’ve been hearing a lot of hype over the past few days about the Moon. Some of it is attention-getting, spectacular, vaguely apocalyptic, and absolutely wrong. The rest of it is attention-getting, spectacular, fact-based and scientific, and also wrong. The truth is, tonight’s full moon—the supermoon, the perigee moon—will be lovely, but not all that [...]
Pop Quiz: What kind of clock is this? You’re right, it’s a digital clock. Let’s try another one. What kind of clock is this? That’s correct, it’s a tacky clock. But let’s stick with digital and analog. One last example. What kind of clock is this? I can pretty much guarantee that you got this [...]
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Today (Monday) is a deadline day on two different projects I’m working on. I worked straight through the weekend, and unfortunately, yesterday’s deadline for a new post proved to be more than I could manage. I’ll try to post as soon as I can, but this week is already chock full of real work (i.e., [...]
I was going to start off today’s post by saying (OK, by writing) that I had to keep it short because I had to go pick my family up at the airport. They’ve been away for three weeks, you see. But yesterday I found out that a minor emergency where they are has delayed their [...]
