• Bottom-Up Stimulus

    There’s an antidote to the global financial collapse…

  • For the Man Who Hated Christmas

    It was just a small, white envelope stuck among the branches of the Christmas tree.

  • Blind, Yet Seeing

    Scientists discover that the brain has a subconscious visual sense

  • Not-So-Lonely Planet

    Not so fragile, either. And neither are we.

  • Are you running fast? Running slow?

    There’s clock time, and then there’s apparent time

  • timely advice from Ernest Hemingway

    The errors America must avoid — and, to date, mostly hasn’t

  • An encouraging word from Emerson

    My friend Emerson (and he is a friend, though we live so far apart in time) lends reassurance across the years, this morning, via Emphatically Emerson, page 174. Writing in 1848, he says: “Happy is he who looks only into his work to know if it will succeed, never into the times or public opinion;…

  • Do you speak 2009?

    A buzzword glossary

  • A DAY’S RIDE, 2008

    Michael Ventura column

  • DNA and telepathy, so to speak

    Suppose scientists found that “inanimate” material was aware of what was going on around it….