Quick summary: a blog post led to a book.
My beat-up copy of Al Bartlett's "The Essential Exponential"
I have not rented space in a former Minuteman missile silo, nor have I stockpiled a cubic kilometer of toilet paper or a reservoir’s worth of PET water bottles. But Covid-19 is extremely serious, and it’s serious because of something Al Bartlett told me 15 years ago…
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I recently had dinner with a friend who's plugged into professional sports. We got to talking about the across-the-board athleticism in pro sports.
Take football: all the different sizes and body types mask the underlying reality that even the heaviest lineman moves like a cat. Many of these guys -- guys who…
John Rubadeau, left, with my daughters and me in 2008, 20 years after I had been fortunate enough to have taken his argumentative-writing class as a University of Michigan sophomore.
I posted this on the Wolverine Forum, the University of Michigan Alumni Association's online community a few days ago; figured it should see the light outside…
Simone Giertz with a few of her creations
Note: I've been writing Medium.com posts in the lead-up to the second-annual Brain Bar Budapest this June (did the same last year). If you're in the neighborhood, this year's lineup is awesome.
Comedy comes in lots of flavors — anecdotal, improvisational, insult, deadpan, sketch, satire, physical, and so on. Simone Giertz,…