Mostly, I'm thankful for the Canadian who left her beautiful country to live with me. Thank you Sandi. Sandi is a classic Canadian. Her ...

What was admirable: he had a lot of drive. What was not admirable: he didn't really care who he ran over.

Travel is deadly. That's extreme. No. Time travel eventually kills us all.

Traditionally, a lot of college mascots were named after the animals or occupations that defined their regions. Grizzlies. Lumberjacks. Mine...

Just as the birthrates of humans is falling, the birthrate of artificial intelligences is exploding. Tired of waiting for an alien species t...

From Harper's .... Estimated number of millionaires created in the United States last year : 441,078 Estimated portion of the world’s ne...

For a time, I would occasionally find myself in a restaurant showing MMA on a big screen. And I remember wondering how it was I landed in th...

We use telescopes to see into the past. We use financial markets to see into the future.

From Harper's Magazine Minimum number of homes in San Francisco that sold for at least $1 million over the asking price in 2025 : 25 In ...

We're fascinated with sports in part because they offer a little oasis of clarity. Decades into your own life, you may still have doubts...

  How old am I? My first computer had a carriage return lever.

Suppose you suddenly learned that you were simply a dollop of consciousness in the midst of a virtual reality game that had, until this mome...

Martin Chorzempa - in a Peterson Institute presentation - reports on the current gap between American and Chinese chips. It is substantial. ...

By far his most sweeping idea was AI-EI-O: artificial intelligence applied to agriculture and farming.

He claimed to be well read, but occasionally undermined the claim by doing something like quoting Moby Dick. The whale, not the novel.

 Cowboys in the future will use very different technology to move cattle.

 Nobel Prizes will be announced over the next week. They are such a wonderful reminder that we are so far from exhausting the possibilities ...

“I put the Trump in triumph,” he said proudly. “And, of course, the I and h.” “I! Ha! Yes. But h? What’s the h for?” “Hubris, apparently.”

She didn't miss COVID but she did miss some of the norms. Shy, she liked avoiding people as the default. And she always thought she had...

"Random? That makes me sound undisciplined. I prefer haphazard. That makes me sound dashing." His boss continued to stare at him b...

Idea for a metaphysical detective show. Guy investigates various religions to explore how they answer the big questions, the biggest being ...

In 1849, at the height of the California Gold Rush, eggs that cost pennies elsewhere sold for $1 to $3 apiece in California. Silicon Valley ...