By Kevin Meyer Fascinating article in the European edition of the Wall Street Journal last week on how scientific research is being performed by larger and larger teams, and the complexity and complications that creates. The atom smasher is so...

by BILL WADDELL Lying to and generally abusing customers has been around as long as business has been in business, but we seem to have reached a point at which we are so casual about it that it that it goes unnoticed most of the time.  There is...

By Kevin Meyer I spent last week in Germany and The Netherlands, and as with any trip abroad I found it fascinating how other societies and political systems work. Last Thursday the European Union appointed its first president and foreign policy...

By Kevin Meyer Once again we’re coming up on holiday season, and once again we have a bunch of retailers and toy manufacturers who tried to guess the latest trend in toys almost a year ago. Why a year ago? Because that’s how long it takes...

By Kevin Meyer A while back I described a conversation, albeit one-sided, that I had with my mother in-law regarding desired features in a home. As is usually the case, I took the contrarian but obviously correct position (ahem!) that homes...