About two months ago, I registered for the Allied Social Science Associations (ASSA) annual meeting. Yesterday, as I was reviewing my credit card statement, I

Most of the childcare in the US (and probably every country) is done by women. As I walked past a men’s bathroom that had a

The Bay Bridge has implemented a new toll system – $6 if you cross the bridge between 7 and 10am or between 3 and 7pm

Every year, I resolve to not make New Year’s resolutions. And then (after seeing the word “resolution” a few hundred times) the thought creeps in,

Appropriately for my New Year’s resolution to start a “verisimilitudes” topic,today’s xkcd comicmentions Wikipedia’s list of common misconceptions, a moderately entertaining read. In the future,

I’m staying in an undisclosed hotel in Denver. When I arrived, there was a door tag on my bed that asked me to “make a

I used to write vocab entries, motivated by me venturing into the world of crossword puzzles. I’m proud to report that I now know most

As I promised a while back, here’s my short take on the book “At Home” by Bill Bryson. “At Home” is not the best book