New Book By Malcolm Gladwell: Outliers: The Story of Success

Author of Blink and The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell, comes out with his new book: Outliers: The Story of Success.

Osama bin Laden For President: Texas Congressman Says So

It is being reported that Charlie Wilson, of Charlie Wilson’s War, said, “We should be led by Osama bin Laden,” he said, then quickly corrected himself. “I mean, Obama and Biden.” Wow, that is a big malapropism. yojoe (not supporting Osama bin Laden ’08) out

Prostitution In Chicago: Starting Wage $27 Per Hour

Female residents of The Second City have a tremendous occupational opportunity, with earnings of up to $20,000 per year. The job: prostitution. This according to a recent paper by Professor Steve Levitt, the coauthor of Freakonomics. The paper details the economics of prostitution in Chicago. The author’s approach, along with his coauthor Sudhir A. Venkatesh, [...]

Yo: The New Gender-Neutral Pronoun

Anybody who spends time writing is, at one time or another, vexed by the lack of a gender-neutral (should read sex-neutral) pronoun in the English language. Attempts have been made to overcome this problem either by avoiding indefinite pronouns, or by the use of his or her or his/her. Both of these fixes have drawbacks. [...]

Atlas Shrugged: Fifty Years Later Ayn Rand’s Novel Continues to Have Immense Influence

Fifty years ago “Atlas Shrugged” was published. “Atlas Shrugged” is the story the most able and creative people in the world withdrawing from society and refusing to be exploited by looters and governments that benefit from their talents yet condemn them for their success. Dagny Taggart is the main character, through which we see the [...]

Book Review: Better: A Surgeon’s Notes on Performance by Atul Gawande

Written by a surgeon, this book is a collection of essays about medicine and much more. Dr. Gawande is a staff member of Brigham and Women’s Hospital, graduate of Stanford, Oxford, and Harvard. The essays are seamless and extraordinarily easy to read, even when explaining complex issues. The overarching theme of he book is the [...]

Book Review: World War Z

The book is World War Z. The story is about how the human race almost came to meet its demise. If Tom Clancy were to do a book about zombies, it would be much like this. This book, however, was penned by the son of Mel Brooks, the man behind Spaceballs–and the heritage is sometimes [...]