Like a murder of crows, politicians and talk show hosts endlessly caw about the debt as a consequence of rampant government spending. Usuall...

It might be that you’ve found your personal reason if it seems unreasonable to everyone else. Some things you do might do for money. That’s...

He and his friend Jerome had their own religion. They believed that we are all caught in an elaborate story written by a deity / screenwrite...

What if eternity is a place where you live among people who may be a different gender, of different skill sets and abilities, different race...

"Yeah right," he heard the voice say in the pause after she declared her love. This was the first hint that something was wrong. ...

Today I got to listen to Celtic music. It was grand. Curiously, Celtic music is - like Christmas music - a seasonal offering that's hard...

This last year has given us some momentous news: eco-disaster with the Gulf Oil spill, devastating earthquakes in Haiti Chile, and Japan, th...

"I think that there is another man." He laughed. "There's always another man." "Not always." "Alwa...

Another excerpt from the book, The Fourth Economy: Inventing Western Civilization from 1300 to 2050. This is from the chapter on the informa...

This is the framework I've used to define the last 700 years and predict the next 50. 

Teachers make so much more than average workers, the talking heads shout. This isn't fair. Fox recently reported that teachers make an...

Conspiracy theories sound dire but they reflect optimism about events. The premise behind one is if there really is a conspiracy than someon...

The book, The Fourth Economy: Inventing Western Civilization from 1300 to 2050 is done. I'm now ready for the editing phase. The central...

Coworker: What does it mean if the Groundhog comes out of his hole, slips on the ice, and ends up in traction? Perpetual winter? Weather ch...

What most people think is true of baldness they cannot really explain or defend. I think it is the same with abortion. Unless you take ext...

Political crises in the Middle East are spilling across borders in the same way that the financial crises did in the West in '08. This...

Recently, a new astrological sign was announced. Sadly, no one seems to have updated the daily horoscopes with the inclusion of this 13th gr...

As I get older, I'm more convinced that our emotional energy creates our circumstances. I've seen it too many times for it to seem l...

Bad: increasingly employees face the same risk to future income as entrepreneurs. Worse: they don't share the same potential for returns...

Games provide flow but rarely provide meaning. Education provides meaning but rarely provides flow. Time to bring gamers into the classroom?...