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If you went back 45 years, the built world would be eerily similar-the clothes, the cars, even the haircuts. Except you'd quickly notice that there were no personal computers and no sma ...

If you buy an Ikea table, you'll need 8 bolts to put it together. 7 is not enough. This is functional sort of 'enough.' It can be critical to our survival. "I have enough me ...

Perhaps this has happened to you: You're at the reference desk of the library, with the answer to any question available-and you can't think of anything to ask. And there's ...

On poison and high voltage wires, the label clearly informs us that this can kill us, right away. For obvious reasons, these are important labels, and generally quite effective. On cigarettes, it&#

At some point, anything we buy feels like a bargain. Something needs to be worth more than it costs or we wouldn't buy it. So, what makes what you offer a bargain? Is it that you've low ...

The Method: Everyone who disagrees with you is right to do so-based on who they are and what they see Attention is priceless and trust is worth even more Marketing is the generous act of help ...

"Feels So Good" and "Chuck E's in Love" were megahits. They transformed the careers of their creators. But any fan of Mangione or Jones will tell you that it's f ...

Not just similar. Cavendish bananas (the usual kind here in the US) are all clones, each from a tree grafted from a tree grafted, all the way back, from the first tree of the species in the UK. The ...

They seem like they'll spread to everyone and stick around forever. This almost never happens. In order to spread to everyone, they need to move beyond the people who are looking for a new id ...

Under each post on my blog there's a button that says RANDOM. I'll confess that reading posts I wrote ten or twenty years ago is often a surprise. I wrote each one, but I have no recoll ...