Gordon's Notes

Roads were not always the dominion of cars, and traffic laws were not always written only for cars. It took decades, and significant cultura...

Age has many insults. Among the minor ones are lumps and bumps that come and go — like the Ganglion Cyst of the Wrist . These cysts are anno...

I played with Orkut briefly, so I received a shutdown notice for the 10 yo service around July 1. Over the past decade, YouTube, Blogger a...

iTunes Radio is at least partly funded by music purchases. But now people don't buy music, they stream it. Similarly, we rent movies, w...

A bong smolders in the sanctum sanctorum of 1 Infinity Loop, Cupertino California. It’s early 2013 and Apple’s most powerful billionaires ar...

I missed this last year, but it’s worth knowing about. The usual suspects are exploiting weak security on tax returns ; they steal identitie...

My daughter and I are using “Holt” [1] Mathematics Course 3 for her summer math work. It’s quite a good printed textbook; a used 2007 editio...

American unemployment, as economist’s measure it, is back to our post-2000 “norm”. On the other hand economic growth is low; our last quarte...

The American Board of Family Medicine  requires recertification every seven years. The standard modules are rigorous; perhaps absurdly so. T...

In an alternate universe…. Today in a terse but clear posting on the Aperture web site Tim Cook apologized for the difficult decision to e...

There are seven billion humans alive now, each the star of the show. In a decade we will, collectively, gather 60-70 billion years of exper...

Yahoo! has been an excellent spam-mail service. I use my Yahoo email whenever I want to avoid spam — such as when I have to deal with Ticket...

The only way I can make sense of the Beats acquisition is to assume that Apple is responding to landscape changes like the end of broadcast ...

I’ve been gnawing on this story for a year or two, figuring that sooner or later a real journalist would solve the mystery for me. That hasn...

Over the past two decades it has become apparent that the knowledge base for clinical medicine has been corrupted by publication bias, posit...