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Most foreign policy books are ... avoidable. They tend to be written in an abstruse language that occasionally approaches English. The most commercial of them promise a new theory of the world: it is flat (economically), America's influence is waning (or waxing), the nature of power is changing, growing softer...
As Tran Cong Tien tells it, he was mad as hell and he wasn't going to take it anymore. Pulled over by a Hanoi traffic cop a few weeks ago for driving in the wrong direction down a one-way street, he says he tried to be reasonable. Tien...
One of the reasons, and probably the critical reason, that large banks have nearly failed is that the executives who ran them apparently never looked at their rapidly rising earnings and asked "what happens if the investments we are making now start to trade in the wrong direction?" "What happens...
You also talk about honeybees, and you mention the dance that bees do to tell other bees where food is. I've always wondered, How did we figure something like that out? Did a bunch of scientists sit around one day and suddenly go, "Oh, so that's what they...
You talk about blood and muscles. One of the things you mention is varicose veins. What exactly are they? Well, your blood runs all over your body, so it obviously has to go against the direction of gravity sometimes. The only way you can do that is to have valves...