Sometimes, life can throw you a curveball. Worse yet, life can throw a bone-crushing 98 mph fastball directly at your head. Writers generally refer to this as tragedy. Tragedy can take the form of every parent’s worst nightmare: having a…
Dying should be a memorable occasion. Anyone can lie calmly in bed and pass away with “dignity,” but it takes a true innovator to grab headlines with his explosive departure to the great beyond. If you want your gravestone to…
Pattern recognition is mankind’s third greatest weakness, just behind bullets and YouTube videos of sneezing baby pandas. In recent years, the best example of our collective failure of induction has been the repetitive cycle of doomsday panics in popular culture.…