Mosquito coils. I don’t mean the plug-in electric repellent, I mean the kind your grandmother lit at her house, the spiral one. Do you know what its stand looks like? I didn’t want to find out either. I recently took up running for my health, and within a couple of weeks I was itching to… Continue reading

Opening address to the Social Science Research Society alumni gathering We seem to live in an age where the word “life-changing” gets used rather freely. Life-changing restaurant, life-changing film, life-changing book. When I see people who use this phrase often, they’re generally not people who’ve lived very long. When “life-changing” is thrown around too casually,… Continue reading