March 25, 2026
I was watching a TV show the other night, and it had closed captioning. The two main characters were talking, and behind them were background actors […]
March 18, 2026
I had lunch the other day with my high school football coach and a former teammate from that same team. It was an awesome experience—not just […]
March 11, 2026
I had a physics class in high school that, I’ll admit, I didn’t do very well in. But I remember a concept the teacher talked about […]
March 4, 2026
I previously did a Rise & Whine episode about the book Blue Collar Journal by John Coleman, who was a Harvard College president in the 1970s. […]
February 25, 2026
This morning, when I backed out of a parking spot after a brief stop, I heard a grinding sound. I thought, Oh no, my car isn’t […]
February 18, 2026
I recently walked by a training room in a building I was visiting, and I noticed something that really stuck with me. The first time I […]
February 11, 2026
I was reading a business newsletter this morning, and it mentioned two companies that had partnered on a project. The subheading alluded to a saying: If […]
February 4, 2026
In one of my favorite old sitcoms, Get Smart, actor Don Adams played Agent 86, Maxwell Smart, who worked for a U.S. spy agency called CONTROL. […]
January 28, 2026
In a fascinating study on how people use visual cues to decide how much to eat, researchers set up two conditions. In the first, participants ate […]
