by John M. Jennings | Sep 22, 2023 | The IFOD
I’ve been hearing about a ton of carjacking in St. Louis. Stories from people I know who know someone who was recently carjacked or witnessed a carjacking. Plus, there seem to be more media reports about carjacking these days. There Have Been More Vehicle Thefts...
by John M. Jennings | Sep 20, 2023 | The IFOD
Our waking activities fall within the broad categories of work, leisure, and play. These categories are relative. What one person considers work, another might consider leisure or play. And the context matters: if you have to read a book for work or school, it might...
by John M. Jennings | Sep 15, 2023 | The IFOD
Lehman Brothers failed 15 years ago today. The Financial Crisis had been brewing for over 18 months, but Lehman’s collapse was an epochal event that brought the global financial system to the brink of collapse. The root of Lehman’s failure was excessive...
by John M. Jennings | Sep 11, 2023 | The IFOD
Ever since Charles Darwin and Sir Alfred Russel Wallace developed the theory of evolution, naturalists have been hard at work figuring out why various animals evolved as they did, including why zebras are striped. Over the last century, various theories have included:...
by John M. Jennings | Sep 8, 2023 | The IFOD
Certain individuals are more likely to experience positive or negative events due to preexisting personality traits. In other words, personality is sometimes the cause of life events. Notably, people high in extroversion experience more positive events, and those who...
by John M. Jennings | Sep 1, 2023 | The IFOD
You don’t become cooler with age, but you do care progressively less about being cool, which is the only true way to actually be cool. Call it the geezers paradox. -Author Unknown I’m 53. Not quite a geezer, but I can see my geezerdom from here. And now I do...