Since it first entered production in 1958, an astounding 110 million Honda Super Cubs have been sold, making it the #1 selling motor vehicle in history. And it's competition for the best-selling honor isn't even close. The best-selling car, the Toyota Corolla, has...

In 2023 I read 66 books, 35 non-fiction and 31 works of fiction. Here's the full list: Books I Read in 2023. Here are my seven favorites in no particular order: Whiskey When We’re Dry: A Novel, by John Larison. In the spring of 1885, seventeen-year-old Jessilyn Harney...

"Dry January" is a public health initiative launched by Alcohol Change UK in 2013 that challenges people to give up alcohol for 31 days. It's been a successful campaign as Dry January is now a household term across the globe, and in 2023, 15 percent of U.S. adults...

Being a parent is rewarding, but it's also tough. And, not surprisingly, the rewards and frustrations of parenthood fall differently on fathers than on mothers, according to a 2019 research study. Gender Differences in the Parental Experience The researchers compared...

Absolute vs. Relative Value We value things both absolutely (does this thing work or not?) and relatively (is this thing better than other things?). For example, you value your car based on whether it gets you reliably from point A to point B (absolute) but also as...

Our Overflowing Closets Do you have clothes in your closet that you never wear? That old college hoodie, the dress bought on sale that isn't quite your style, those jeans that are just a size too small? Even though we never wear these unused and unloved items, it's...

On the night of July 21, 356 BC, the arsonist Herostratos destroyed the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. As noted by historian Albert Borowitz, Herostratos was "a shadowy figure of whose life nothing is known before he was...

Until last year, I'd been a PC guy for my entire life. And I've had a lot of PCs: IBM Thinkpads, Lenovo Thinkpads, Dells, HPs, an NEC, and back in the day, a Compaq and a Gateway 2000. My wife has had Macs for years, and whenever I'd use them, I'd feel lost. They made...

People often feel nostalgia for the past, claiming that previous times were better. A common view is that general human goodness and morality are declining -- people are less kind, more selfish, and less moral than they were in the past. It's as if they view the past...