Terra Incognita

When was the last time you were in an unexplored place?  These days you can’t hike a national park without a satellite being able to see if your dandruff shampoo is working, but early cartographers with neither satellites nor drones had to use phrases like Terra...

The Stories We Tell Ourselves

If you’ve ever pushed the crosswalk button at a stoplight and waited several minutes for the light to change you’ve most likely been manipulated by the placebo effect.  Most cross walk buttons in the united states aren’t connected to the stoplights...

The Millennial Whoop of Journalism

I recently became aware of something called “The Millennial Whoop”.  Patrick Metzer wrote an interesting piece about it for Slate magazine. Its a musical pattern used within many types of songs to give instant comfort to the listener and make it sound...