How Curious Are You?
I have been reading about a man who lived 500 years ago. He had three characteristics that made his life challenging: He was an illegitimate child, he was left-handed, and he was gay. As a young adult he applied for a position with a duke and listed ten...
What Could You Invent?
Recently I saw something no owner of a two-year-old home expects to see: a mouse in the house. I wanted to capture it and toss it out. But how? I looked in stores for mouse-capture devices. Many inventors have heard the saying, “Build a better mousetrap and the world...
The Value of Determination
While visiting Dresden, Germany, on holiday, I saw in a fabulous museum a cherry pit with 185 tiny human faces carved into it. A person needs a magnifying glass to see the faces clearly. I am sure the unknown artist needed a magnifying glass to see what he was carving...
The Power of Fictional Characters
I recently visited Estonia, where locals fear that Russian tanks and soldiers will one day pour across the border, as they did decades ago. I had in my mind that if the Russians invaded and locals fought, I would join them on the barricades. I got the idea of joining...
What Have Been Your Lifetime-Best Decisions?
We think with distaste of bad decisions we made. Hitler decided to invade Poland. I bought an MG Midget. Along with our bad decisions are many good decisions. One of my best decisions was to move to Australia to take an academic position at the University of New...
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