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Book review: The Best Short Stories 2022: The O. Henry Prize Winners, ed. by Valeria Luiselli

posted: December 2, 2023

tl;dr: The best essays in this volume are not the ones about the pandemic...

The best life advice ever

posted: November 25, 2023

tl;dr: Don’t panic, instead read this post...

Book review: The Best American Essays 2021, ed. by Kathryn Schulz

posted: November 18, 2023

tl;dr: The best essays in this volume are not the ones about the pandemic...

Experiencing the World Series

posted: November 11, 2023

tl;dr: Once you get in the World Series, all that matters is how well you play in October and November...

Getting to the World Series

posted: November 4, 2023

tl;dr: Once you get in the playoffs, all that matters is how well you play in October...

Book review: Termination Shock, by Neal Stephenson

posted: October 29, 2023

tl;dr: How a billionaire might fight climate change with geoengineering...

Movie review: Oppenheimer

posted: October 18, 2023

tl;dr: Being a war hero is a fleeting honor...

Book review: The Best American Short Stories 2021, ed. by Jesmyn Ward

posted: October 14, 2023

tl;dr: Kudos to Jesmyn Ward for staying on task and coming up with a better-than-usual selection of stories...

Great motorcycle roads: The Devil's Highway, US-191 Clifton to Springerville, Arizona

posted: October 4, 2023

tl;dr: The Devil's Highway is quite appropriately named...

Why I am a windmill skeptic

posted: September 28, 2023

tl;dr: Windmills have one fatal flaw and numerous other problems...

The algorithms will determine your price now

posted: September 17, 2023

tl;dr: Dynamic pricing algorithms are determining a growing percentage of the prices we pay...