Month: November 2009

Shopping is broken. In the fifties, if you wanted to buy a toaster, you only had a few practical choices. Maybe you went to the nearest department store and selected from the three models available. Or maybe you found your toaster in the Sears catalog. In a way, you were…

I saw in the news today that The United States is going to withdraw most of its military forces from Afghanistan. Okay, the news didn’t say that in so many words. But they did say, “The cat is on the roof,” which means the same thing. Allow me to explain…

Researchers tell us that we find other humans beautiful when those hotties appear as if they could produce healthy offspring. In other words, our minds translate the perception of species survival utility into the perception of beauty. I wonder if survival utility is the ONLY thing we find beautiful about…