In 1978, the first "test tube baby" was born. By 2017, babies born by in vitro fertilization (IVF) were 1.7% of all babies born in...

Republicans really hate Nancy Pelosi. Last week, in the midst of a pandemic taking 1,000 lives a day and a reminder that we still have 11 mi...

A few quick notes about today's jobs numbers. One, it is fantastic to be up 1.4 million jobs in a month. Two, we have now replaced 50% o...

In Hacking Darwin , Jamie Metzl writes that, "A BBC poll estimated that around half of all South Korean women in their twenties have ha...

Baby boomers made Clapton's cover of Bob Marley's "I Shot the Sheriff" #1 in 1974. Now they’re offended that millennials a...

Some excerpts from Joe's speech today. I’m going to be very clear about all of this, rioting is not protesting. Looting is not protestin...

This morning an unprecedented number of children are homeschooling. I'm dedicating one entire post to help. First something fascinating....

Years ago, I read a line in my daughter's chemistry textbook: "processes that require lots of energy tend not to occur." I lau...

Studying flow - the psychology of engagement - decades ago, it occurred to me that the ultimate profitable business would be one that design...

The Biden - Trump election is very simple. Trump's task is to convince voters that the bad numbers that so define America today - COVID ...

Bill Gates became the richest man in the world in 1995 for creating a platform (in the form of Word, Excel, Outlook, Project) that enabled k...

In 1968, this iconic shot of earth was broadcast by NASA. Inspired by this new perspective, earthlings quickly organized themselves differen...

In the early 1900s, the Democrats began to shift from the party of farmer to the party of labor. In 1800, only 20 percent of the workforce w...

In the next little while, DoorDash and Instacart are going public. One delivers prepared meals from restaurants and the other delivers groce...