Health care is an ongoing concern not just in the United States, but in countries around the world. Everywhere, it seems, there is a tension between improved treatments and medicines, rising costs and aging populations that require more and more of the very expensive health care that human ingenuity keeps improving. …

For a guy who claims to be skeptical of studies, I sure read about a lot of them. This one caught my eye though because it's an indirect endorsement of the concept of strengths.

Researchers at UC Riverside turned up some surprising findings in a…

It occurred to me a few years ago that television and movies have switched places. It used to be that advertisers loved TV because they were dealing with a more-or-less captive audience. Sure, you could change channels or turn the TV off altogether, but if you wanted to watch a show, you'd have to sit through ads to see it. Now, many of us (most of us) don't even watch TV as it airs live, but either use TiVo (my personal favorite) or another…

When I go to buy oranges at the grocery store, I normally check the price and weigh my selection to know roughly how much they're going to cost me. When I take my car in to the mechanic's shop, he gives me an estimate (okay, sometimes it's a cruel joke, but still) of how much it's going to cost to repair whatever my issue is. Before I click "Place order" on Amazon.com or a hundred other e-tailers, they've told me exactly how much the item, the shipping and the tax will…