There was a dead man in our hotel room.
Slate asks: What protocol does a hotel follow when a guest is found dead? Turns out I have a little bit of experience with this question. When I was 23…
Purposeful procrastination: Are slightly lower grades really all that bad?
A new study suggests that students who turn in homework at the last minute get worse grades. Of the 777 students involved, 86.1 percent waited until the last 24 hours…
The tyranny of the syllabus
I know a handful of college professors personally. I know a handful more via Facebook and Twitter. I have known many, many more throughout the years. Right around this time…
My children visited a bookstore on the last day of summer. Their behavior was shocking.
We spent the last day of summer on the Connecticut shoreline. Among our choice of activities was a visit to our favorite bookstore, R.J. Julia in Madison, Connecticut. Elysha…
My best piece of parenting advice
It takes a special and exceedingly wise breed of parent to ignore a temper tantrum like this and instead retrieve the camera and document the moment for posterity. My wife…
Just like his mom. And his dad, actually.
Our son, Charlie, spent the evening cooking dinner with Elysha. He spends most of this time demanding his mother’s attention and hanging on her legs, so involving him in the…
If I was able to choose my children’s teachers, this is what I would want more than anything else.
If I were allowed to choose the teachers for my children, I would almost always choose the teachers with the greatest variation of life experience. Give me a teacher who…
When you choose the name Moxie Marlinspike, you have to expect people to ask about the name. Just answer the question.
I was listening to Moxie Marlinspike, an Internet security researcher, on the most recent episode of Planet Money. Here is the exchange between Mr. Marlinspike and reporter Steve Henn:Henn: Is…
Men are far more likely to make stupid decisions in sports. But are the reasons for this stupidity all bad? I don’t think so.
This will come as no surprise to anyone who plays a coed sport: On the playing field, men are more likely than women to make dumb decisions. The major finding:…
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