Whenever I walked into his Des Moines store, Bill Reichardt, haberdasher, state senator and college football star, would ask “How’s everything in Dan’s world?”  A...

Do you need to learn how to see? An absurd question?  Anecdotal and confessional evidence suggest that many men cannot see anything in the refrigerator.  Or, in their own...

Einstein’s son once asked his father why he was successful.  Einstein replied “When a blind beetle crawls over the surface of a curved branch, it doesn’t notice that the track it...

“You’re no Einstein.” Somewhere, somehow, somebody probably said that to you.  Or maybe: “Way to go, Einstein.” Did you ever wonder if you could be Einstein? Of course, you and I...

There’s no retirement home for this guy.  No, he is now over 3000 years old and is still an active superhero.  He is the “world’s weirdest action hero,” “the flexible man with...

“I was lucky enough to notice what the beetle didn’t notice.”                                                                                                 Albert Einstein...

Boredom is self-inflicted. My theory was confirmed by reading scholarly articles on boredom: what it is, where it comes from, is it beneficial, or aversive?   Whatever.  It is...

My grandmother used to climb into the lake in her bathing suit with a ruffled skirt.  She would take two or three steps away from the dock and then wait, standing still.  Before...

I like to get to the gym early to flex my neocortex and dash through a few corpus callosum sprints.  I preen and watch my cingulate gyrus stretch in the floor-to-ceiling mirrors....

It’s game day… with a twist. Games are everywhere, including websites that purport to “train your brain.”  Games are employed in divergent thinking tests to “measure” your...