Well here we are in 2010. Wow, how exciting is that! Now, my readers need to understand that I am of the age when telephones were still rotary, there was no internet, no blackberries, facebook, or ...

“I like the idea of being proved right, I’m not necessarily curious about the subject,” my teenager, currently in the throes of her final exams, said about mathematics, a subject she convinced herself ...

In the Rolling Stones' song "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction," Mick Jagger makes references to 1960s marketing campaigns that tried to persuade men to smoke cigarette brands that would make them seem ...