The recent World Cup revealed a number of reasons that soccer is unlikely to ever catch on in the US. Perhaps the most obvious reason soccer...

There are only two states of mind that precede learning, and neither is particularly pleasant. Before you learn something, you are either ig...

To find a good reason why the waiter might think it would impress your date to offer her freshly ground pepper from what appears to be a sma...

Europeans discovered America but Americans also discovered Europe, a rarely mentioned story. Pocahontas’s father sent one of his tribe back ...

Tomorrow's world cup final pits Spain against the Netherlands. Institutionalized siestas vs. legalized marijuana, which should make 2010...

I get so many requests for more sports coverage here at R World. I try to be responsive to my reader, so here goes. Business idea: little gr...

The American Revolution didn't just happen once. In fact, it is still happening. In 1689, England's Glorious Revolution shifted auth...

about the PEN conference take a writer away from his typewriter and all you have left is the sickness which started him typing in the beginn...

Petraeus has been confirmed as the war commander for the mission in Afghanistan. Poor guy. From the outset we've confused war, occupatio...

Sadly, the movie Mindwalk, based on Fritjof Capra's writing, is not yet available on DVD. Here are some excerpts that you could watch if...

I think that I'm just going to wait another decade for the Dick Tracy watch.

“What is possible is not independent of what we believe to be possible. “ - Neil MacCormick “If I were to wish for anything, I should not wi...

I guess that's news. You know, that McChrystal left the White House after his meeting. But still, I can't help but think it'd be...

Here is a curious little chart I created to compare stock market performance by party between the time that Teddy Roosevelt took office and ...

to be nobody but yourself - in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battl...

Alternative captions: What Santa's elves do on their summer vacation. Godzilla was seen making the exact same moves just before he attac...

Regular readers know that I'm stupidly optimistic about the future but still have bouts of frustration when it appears that so few voter...

Economic development sounds like such a dry and abstract topic. That’s unfortunate. Economic development can mean the difference between a m...

Gold is a lousy investment. Oh, I know it has gone up lots of late - outperforming real estate and stocks by a wide margin. But it is a lous...

Excerpts from the Atlantic, The End of Men by Hanna Rosin .. Earlier this year, women became the majority of the workforce for the first tim...