Steven Landsburg, author of The Armchair Economist (and more recently, The Big Questions), has a new blog, and it's pretty good. Today's post: five of the ten questions posed to prospective Honors graduates in the Economics department at Oberlin...

Reacting to a post by Daniel Dennet expressing gratitude for the miracle of modern medicine Steven Landsburg muses about what really deserves thanks: Add a word of thanks not just for goodness but for greed—the greed that inspired...

I'm in the last phase of my senior thesis, the part where I actually sit down and type the damn thing up. It's about blogs, and in doing the background research, I found this great (if dated) essay on the history of the blogosphere: Shortly...

My former high school English teacher, Svein Arber, was mentioned in a Facebook blog post on educational use of the platform: Svein Arber, a high school teacher in San Francisco, Calif., created a Facebook group to connect with his...

Me: "I want to login to pay my Internet bill, but you're asking for a home phone number and I don't know it. We rent, and we all just use mobiles." Comcast rep: "I see that you don't have our Digital Voice Telephone Service. I see you do...