Pappy Van Winkle is considered by many to be the finest bourbon in the world. Some even regard it as the best whiskey in the world. Their whiskey often sells for thousands of dollars a bottle. Case in point: I attended a charity auction a few years ago where a bottle...

1959 Ford Thunderbird The "winner's curse" is an economic concept that refers to the fact that the winning bidder in a competitive auction often overpays. This phenomenon occurs even when the bidders have expertise with respect to the value of the item being...

I often get to ride with co-workers, family and friends in their cars and I've noticed that you can divide people into two categories: Those that use the "auto" setting on their car's A/C and those who prefer to adjust it manually. Personally, I am an "auto" type of...

The Hawthorne Works Plant - Home to 40,000 Workers. Source: Harvard Business School. In the 1920s and 1930s a series of workplace experiments were undertaken at the Hawthorne Works, a factory owned by Western Electric outside of Chicago. The purpose of the experiments...

It is very hard to write a book. Like super-duper hard. What's even harder is to write a book with bizarre rules or constraints. Here are five of the strangest works of fiction ever written: (1) Gadsby, by Ernest Vincent Wright. Written in 1939, this is a 50,000 word...

As you are probably aware, on Sunday the US Women's National Soccer Team won their 4th World Cup (out of the last 8 World Cups). In celebration of that awesome achievement here are some interesting facts related to Title IX, the 1972 law that has played a material...

Its a Tacocat! This past week I was hanging with my young cousin Jones and he wore a shirt proclaiming that TACOCAT spelled backwards is also TACOCAT and thus is a palindrome. Awesome! A palindrome is a word, number or phrase that is the same whether spelled forwards...

Idioms are words or phrases that are not intended to be taken literally. What are the sources of some of these interesting idioms? Riding Shotgun: This phrase refers to riding in the front passenger seat of a car. To claim that spot, the first passenger to exclaim...

California has many issues: wildfires, mudslides, earthquakes, expensive cost of living, high taxes and lots of traffic. But, one thing it doesn't have is hurricanes! Why? Aren't there hurricanes in the Pacific? There are hurricanes in the Pacific and they are nasty -...

Hawaii became a state in 1959 and is made up of over 100 islands, with 8 main ones. Here are some very interesting facts about Hawai'i: Hawaii is the 40th most populous state, with 1.42 million inhabitants, with nearly 1 million living on Oahu. Hawai'i (called "the...

I've been thinking about 1989 lately. It was a pretty momentous year. A few things about 1989: ONE: The world changed. The Berlin Wall came down. The Soviet Union was in the midst of collapse. Pro-Democracy Rallies occurred in Tiananmen Square. It was the year that...