Is the traditional college doomed? More and more people think so. Massively open online courses are threatening to shake up higher education by bringing primarily non-credit courses from college professors to the world at no cost. The California state senate, however, has just passed a bill to encourage its universities to develop MOOCs and other […]

Instead of the philosophy counter, we were at the righteous round table yesterday, because Herb got there first and he picked. It’s a good venue at the Mule Barn truck stop when you’re expecting more than three or four members of the world dilemma think tank. But we weren’t expecting Windy. Here he came, Alphonse […]

The flight from Boston to Los Angeles is about an hour longer than the flight back. There’s a pretty simple reason. The prevailing wind is from west to east. On the way to Boston, it can literally push the plane along. That wind can push almost anything along in that direction. For example, it can send eastward […]