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...tend to think that history is written in stone, that it's unchanging, immutable, fixed. But history isn't a one-way conversation; it's a continuing dialogue between the past and the present. Dutch historian Pieter Geyl once wrote that history is "an argument without end." And it's fair to say that historians have been arguing about John F. Kennedy's presidency from the moment it tragically ended...
Americans don't spend much on food largely because we just don't want to. As a society gets richer, its people tend to use their extra income for things like recreation and education, not daily sustenance. This relationship between food and income--as you get rich, you spend proportionately less to eat--has held so strongly over so many generations that economists have given it a name: Engel's law (for Ernst Engel, a 19th century statistician). The foodie revolution that began in the '70s--arugula over iceberg, short ribs over brisket, etc.--has challenged Engel's law among...
Life-hacking communities focus not just on efficiency but also on making life more satisfying. "Self-help books tend to be about lofty ideas, whereas life hacks are about getting things done and solving life's problems with modest solutions," says Merlin Mann, whose 43 Folders blog is one of the most popular life-hacking hubs. In contrast to tomes of lengthy analyses and rambling prose, life hacking boils down self-help to actionable nuggets on subjects that range from workplace negotiations to travel planning. Typical tips? To halve the length of meetings, have people stand, because they...
Scheim and Davis readily accept this Oswald as an impostor. But both conveniently tend to consider other alleged sightings of Oswald as genuine: sitting in a New Orleans bar with an associate of mobster Marcello's and taking money under the table; traveling with another Marcello crony three months before the assassination. In this selective reasoning, neither author seems to consider that some or all of the witnesses could be mistaken, their memories swayed by the TV images of the assassin's face...
...ground. History is going to look favorably on Steve Jobs, but there are lots of unwritten stories where founders weren't successful." David Smith, technology analyst at Gartner, says Yang may have too much influence for Yahoo's own good. "Founders have a special place in every company and tend to be listened to longer than they should," he says...