What Made Me Smile This Week (April 1 – April 7): Further Steps toward Mastery

Learning something new isn’t always easy. I suspect that’s why many people don’t like it, because in the long run you’ll have to deal with…

What Made Me Smile This Week (March 25 – 31): Going With the Flow

There is rumored to be a mythic state that meditating Buddhist monks can achieve, known as Satori, or flow. The outside world falls away, and…

What Made Me Smile This Week (March 18 – 24): Surfing the YouTube Train

Not all weeks can be as fun or exciting as last week, so unsurprisingly, things slowed down a bit. I will say however that I’ve…

What Made Me Smile This Week (March 11 – 17): Can You Hear Me Now?

At the rate that I am appearing in the Library of Congress, I’m going to be a celebrity! This week was uncharacteristically busy by normal…

What Made Me Smile This Week (March 4 – March 10): All Roads Lead to Washington, and a Temporal Shift

I’m making an executive decision with these posts. From now on, I’m planning to release them every following Monday. That’s not as hard as it…

Weekly Smiles: Wonderful Food! February 25 — March 3

This week seems to feature food very prominently. I assure you, dear reader, that this type of eating is highly anomalous for me. A series…

What Made Me Smile This Week, Premiere Edition

What follows will hopefully be a weekly thing for me from now on. You could look at this as a diary, but with a focus…

Evolution Through the Eyes of Jazz

The phrase “adapt or die” is probably most familiar to evolutionary biologists. But the phrase is true in other areas of life because it expresses…