In this week's decision to support the president's immigration ban on 7 countries, Chief Justice John Roberts ruled that the Supreme...

Cryptocurrency emerges from the notion that it is better to trust an algorithm than the judgement of a central banker.  So before we ev...

Today is Donald Trump's birthday. He's 72. Trump, George W. and Bill Clinton were all born within 66 days of each other in the ...

I think Christians, Buddhists, evolutionary biologists, statisticians, and developmental economists are right. There is no way to make sense...

Trump signed a budget that will increase the deficit to a trillion dollars. The deficit will grow simply because the economy is grow...

I'm a fan of video games. I think that the world will get better as we build more effective simulators to teach systems dynamics that in...

Lewis Hyde's  Trickster Makes This World   is a brilliant look at how trickster gods from cultures on every continent seem to be a const...

I went on a business trip with my wife Friday. She calls them field trips. She teaches 2nd grade and Wednesday her 7 and 8 year olds reached...

Mirrors were a phenomenal invention for promoting self-awareness. Mirrors don't make us look great but because they inform us of how we ...

Under Trump, Republicans are not just pursuing bad policy but bad strategy. As they frantically pursue policies that veer further and furthe...

Someone had shared this recently: Rule 3 "There are no mistakes, only lessons." As is my tendency, I nodded silently. It made sens...

Here is an interesting pair of numbers. In the first quarter of 2018, US companies announced $242 billion in stock buybacks. At that pac...

In analysis, you have two kinds of errors: false positives and false negatives. [This blog post was inspired by Phil Rosenzweig's piece ...

Given that Trump has retreated into fear and nationalism, Macron may emerge as the new leader of the West. In April of 2016, Macron founde...