YouTube is awesome. I use it to watch music videos, movie and TV clips, cat videos, tutorials for fixing things, and all sorts of things people post via social media. Speaking of cat videos, check out this adorable one: cats sharing food. YouTube is huge. It is the...

We've all been there: contemplating doing something that we think would be good for us but not liking the particular activity. A great example is running. I love to run (but I'm not supposed to anymore which makes me sad). I've talked to all sorts of people who'd like...

That women talk more than men is a common stereotype. A 2007 research study on this question summarized the usual view and its source: The stereotype of female talkativeness is deeply engrained in Western folklore and often considered a scientific fact. In the first...

"Ladies and gentlemen, rock 'n' roll." Those were the first words said when MTV went live on August 1, 1981 at 12:01 a.m. On the screen was an image of an astronaut planting a MTV flag on the moon. The first video played was "Video Killed the Radio Star" by the...

Years ago I attended a leadership and self-improvement retreat where one of the leaders said something that knocked my socks off. He said: "expectations create unhappiness." I've thought a lot about this and I think he's correct. Think about when you've been angry,...

Dylan at 4 years old (he's 13 now) -- He's an Andorran Retriever.* Lately, I've been paying special attention to my dog, Dylan, and noticing how he approaches life. From my observations, I think there's a lot we humans can learn from dogs about how to live our lives....

A previous IFOD covered the Coastline Paradox -- the notion that you can't really know the length of a border or coastline. That's because the size of the ruler you're using matters: as the size of one’s ruler gets smaller, the length of the coastline or border gets...

I've been on quite a few charitable boards over my career. Early on, when I joined a board I was an eager beaver. Right away, I typically had all sorts of suggestions about what the organization should start doing and stop doing. But with rare exception, my ideas...

I'm 52 today. Younger than some. Older than most. Older but not old? Regardless of the categorization of my age, I have 52 thoughts about life I’d like to share. Things I've been collecting for some time now. 1. Life is both tragic and hilarious. Sometimes at the same...

Charlie Munger is quoted as saying, "All I want to know is where I'm going to die, so I'll never go there." I guess Charlie should avoid the hospital given that's where about 68% of Americans die. Based on the causes of death listed on death certificates, the top...

Our minds are constantly abuzz, flitting from one thought to the next and back again. How many of these flitting thoughts do we have in a day? Research out of Queen's University in Canada found that humans have around 6.5 thoughts per minute or about 6,000 per day,...

I've never been to Albuquerque, but I feel like I've been there after watching all five seasons of Breaking Bad. It seems like a lovely city and a nice place to live. As of 2022, the Albuquerque metropolitan statistical area ("MSA") is about 900,000 people, making it...