Gordon's Notes

Wonderful essay about the 2002 discovery of a new insect order (the Mantophasmatodea). In a few years they went from unrecognized fossil spe...

In May of 2007, as oil prices rose, I drew a line along a graph of gasoline prices ... Gordon's Notes: Gasoline prices: refining or se...

Pickings were slim at the airport today. There were the usual Friedman/Tipping Point style books, but I'd rather read the dictionary tha...

I wanted to like Rework by Fried and Hannson , but I feel like I overpaid. To say it's a short book is an understatement. This is prett...

I grew up in Canada, but most of my adult life has been spent in the US. I'm more American than Canadian, but I keep in touch with the o...

We're coming up on one of the great natural experiments of our time. If I and my fellow travelers are right about how the American world...

High intensity interval training (HIT) is a popular fix for people with more drive than time ... What’s the Best Exercise? - Gretchen Reyn...

I did my first TCBC ride in 12 years tonight. The kids are getting old enough I can take a Dad Night every few weeks; soon they'll be s...

The Dow is doing very well, though some expect that to change shortly. For most Americans, however, the Great Recession grinds on. The perce...

In our home it's a short hop from planning a bathroom remodeling to the history of uncertainty in medieval and modern eras to the shadow...

I haven't seen a patient in 10 years, but I like to keep in some contact with my first career. So I've spent the last two days at th...

I don't like paying $20/month for our AT&T unlimited texting family plan. After all, it costs AT&T next to nothing to provide S...

The GOP is expected to blackmail the Democratic party by holding the American economy hostage . This isn't news;  Bruce Bartlett has bee...

A marketing (legal spam) firm was hacked and a bunch of our "private" (hah!) information was stolen. We can now expect more person...

I was a happy Times Select subscriber. I liked paying for what I read, and I was disappointed that the NYT took down that paywall. The price...