The empty expert answer
There are a lot of questions where the non answer is surprisingly correct. Questions like this…
There are a lot of questions where the non answer is surprisingly correct. Questions like this…
A Gumption Trap is an old school name for an even older idea, coined by Robert…
The idea that the biosphere of Earth is a single organism, whose cells are each of…
Because you’re the one talking about other people’s state of mind. That’s how I know your…
JustAskingQuestions …is a rhetorical device where people cram a pile of lies into a question in…
Aristotle, the inventor of logic and science, considered “Petito Principii” to be the stupidest error. This…
Is the payoff worth it? Will he be the ‘foreclosure’ President? Quick grammar technicality: “Flotsam” is…
25% is a funny number. 25% is the number of people who simply would not go…
This is actually a really hard problem – it’s a really neat problem for students of…
Reversed Clichés are often more insightful than the original. This is a predictable side-effect of living…
Then mistakes wouldn’t exist. What, you never make mistakes? Super: God himself dropped by my website.…
Mutts have been studiously and violently destroyed throughout history because they are destined to be the master…
Dave and I once got talking about all those doppelgangers a while back. Both of us…
The Edifice And The Shack is a metaphor for the contrast between some proposed giant articulate…
The Kludge That Won It’s occurred repeatedly in our history. It’s occurred over and over during…
Feminism is, in some regards, the triumph of the ‘cultural’ culture, AKA alpha-male culture. Remarkably, it’s…
Spencer said he’s a “Godologist.” I said “Oh, yeah?” To which he replied “Seriously, Dave, I’m…
When we go to unwrap an ice cream sandwich, we try to open it longways, to…
The first time someone has a new experience, they have no real notion of it, no…
Men and dogs… Women and cats… will eat almost anything play with their food like rough…
I never believed those crazy UFO nuts ‘till just a couple weeks ago. I never thought…
The following is 100% true. I wish it weren’t Members of the East Lansing Police force…
Bottle Gardeners “How do you get all the plants in those little bottles?” He was filthy,…
HOW TO SAY NOTHING IN FIVE HUNDRED WORDS Paul McHenry Roberts (1917-1967) taught college English for…
The Bear Hunter This is a mapping puzzle. Drawing a picture, or having a map might…
An SEP field is a device for invisibility, and history has an example of a real…
Intuition is the Latinesque name for hunches or gut feelings – unconscious thinking. All people constantly…
I have a theory that one way to help people (de)program our conditioned responses is to learn…
This originally appeared in The State News, Michigan State University’s student newspaper, on June 14, 1999.…
There is certainly a grand-champion hall-of-famer MOST annoying question, based on how much turmoil it has…
I really like this puzzle because it does such a good job of illustrating the essential…
A principle is a relationship, in every case. When two (or more) items interact, the rules…