Now we’re a scuba nation. In scuba we trust!
I spotted another version of the Jesus/Darwin car symbol today.
Steven Strogatz discusses how things in nature tend to sync up all by themselves.
Stephen Strogatz is a mathematician who has studied synchrony in nature. Synchrony is the "spontaneous tendency of separate entities to act as a unit." Strogatz finds synchrony "everywhere" in nature. He stresses that you don't need to be smart to synchronize, nor do you need to have a brain or…
Experiencing the paradox of choice at the local Schnucks grocery store.
It's difficult to overcome the prejudice that having more choices is always better. In The Paradox of Choice, Barry Schwartz made a convincing case that too much choice can overload and paralyze us. I couldn't help but think of the paradox of choice while grocery shopping yesterday. One of the…