2+ day, 13+ hour ago   (478+ words) Jane Cowan: "I met some of my best college friends on a tour of the library. You really have to go into these things with an open mind." Okay, maybe I was feeling a little sensitive as I read the…...

3+ day, 20+ hour ago   (179+ words) Good day, Peeps. I hope everyone is having a nice day. It’s already Tuesday here, again, as I’m starting this post. I hope you don’t mind. First off, a bit of housekeeping: Anyway, that’s what’s eating at me today. Now…...

4+ day, 16+ hour ago   (519+ words) Engineering professor and his students celebrate an Ig Nobel win on the world stage for their design of a splash-free urinal It was such good news, the engineering professor and his student celebrated by sipping blueberry wine from espresso cups…...

4+ day, 13+ hour ago   (162+ words) Good afternoon fellow humans! One of your brethren got in my inbox to complain that in these here Ones-A-Day, I introduce the post with a line before it instead of telling you what I just wrote there after it. So…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (549+ words) It’s hard to take a joke when our entire economy and financial system is the joke. We’re blessed/cursed to be living in a very peculiar era in which parodies are taken with the utmost seriousness, an absurdist state of…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (23+ words) Viral trends like these may seem harmless, but they're actually reinforcing harmful stereotypes that diminish women's autonomy and maturity....

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (271+ words) Will marriage survive the internet? Yes, the battle of the sexes is as old as civilization itself. But digital technology has introduced a new and disorienting dynamic. It turns humans into avatars. And avatars don’t fall in love or find…...