“Nordhaus postulates a more realistic scenario in which at least half the world does not participate in a global campaign, requiring those who do participate to spend more than would otherwise be necessary…

“Why airfreight a spare part from China when it can be printed when needed in one of the many decentralized, even backyard, factories that will soon be springing up in one’s neighborhood? Such…

“Diabetes is a disease of slowing, turgid blood flows that promote blockages. To deter blockages, sugar and insulin must not be allowed to build up. To prevent the build-up, either take a pill…

“A few years ago, I had a lot of lower back pain. Then I discovered pull-ups, the world’s best lat exercise. The better I got at pulling myself over the bar, the less…

“That the aged are more conservative than the young is well known. It is often said that, if you are not a radical at age 20, you have no heart and that, if…

“As matters now stand, many enjoy having people to look down on, especially people they never meet in their economically segregated towns and whose problems they never hear discussed in their culturally segregated…

“. . . the infirmities that plague the poor, while appearing in the guise of disabilities we associate with innate stupidity, are far from being the product of deficient genetic endowment. They are…

“He was not a lovable character—distant, irritable, impatient, prone to distrust people, and think the worst of them. But it wasn’t his personal qualities that incited hatred. It was his political beliefs, although,…

“Al Gore famously said that the planet has a fever. But that was when air-surface temperatures were rising. They have since stalled out. What gives? The climate change deniers think they have the…

“The faces of August 1914 were mostly tear-stained.Not those of the so-called masses. They had not yet reason to cry. World War I had just begun. Rather, those of the diplomats and political…