Convenience Wins

If you've ever reached for a box of crackers instead of preparing fresh vegetables, you know how difficult it can be to choose the better option when there's more friction involved.

As Long as it Needs to Be

In my final semester of high school, I enrolled in an alternative program known as Senior Year Project. It was a self-directed research project designed to give students the opportunity to pursue a topic of our choosing.

What is Art?

If shooting your friend in the arm constitutes art, what is art, exactly?

Craft and Care

A story about cake mixes reminds us that a cake is more than the sum of its parts.

Effective Writing

Effective writing is only as long as it needs to be to make its point.

Effective Marketing

It's a noisy world, and turning up the volume doesn't necessarily make people want to listen to you more.

Simpson's Paradox

Simpson's paradox is a statistical phenomenon that occurs when a pattern across groups of data disappears when those groups are combined.

Literature and Medicine

Poetry, Aristotle wrote, is capable of expressing the universal, while history excels at recording the particular.

Attention Alcohol

Alcohol and social media might have a lot in common when viewed through the lens of how they impact us.

Great Ideas

Why do so many great ideas seem early?