Much has been said over the last year about whether one political candidate or another is "fit" for office. As we face our first election in which a woman is a major party presidential nominee, my ...

Much has been said over the last year about whether one political candidate or another is “fit” for office. As we face our first election in which a woman will be a major party presidential nominee, ...

In the emerging fields of biomechanics and biomimicry, scientists are decoding rules that can help form businesses as hardy and long lasting as a forest. After all, nature is far harsher than the ...

Over drinks with some friends last night, I brought up the topic of the "Girl Code," a concept that, in pop culture at least, tends to receive far less attention than its counterpart, the "Bro Code." ...

Even the simplest environmental stimuli elicit responses in large populations of neurons in early sensory cortical areas. How these distributed responses are read out by subsequent processing stages ...

Pass on the parka: "By all means, wear a proper evening coat instead of a parka in cold weather although, but remember, there’s a certain status in 'no coat' because it says you left it in the car and ...

Big banks say the plethora of rules that President Barack Obama has imposed on them is so heavy that the whole economy will suffer. Challenger Mitt Romney says the rules are "the biggest kiss that's ...

I was trolling through the comments section of some of my recent blogs and I stumbled on a new area of apparent confusion among financial advisers regarding Social Security claiming strategies: Family ...

With little clarity on how valuations would be conducted, the Angel tax introduced by the Finance Act of 2023 seems to be a case of putting the cart before the horse. The move seeks to impose ...

When my family and I moved to Sonoma County, we were thrust into an unfamiliar world of septic systems. Coming from Oakland, where replacing sewer lines was a costly but simple affair, the septic ...