Liberal Arts Blog — Wednesday is the Joy of Science, Engineering, and Technology Day Today’s Topic — Geology (Part II): Monoliths of the USA (El Capitan, Devil’s Tower, Stone Mountain) Last time, Sugarloaf Mountain and Corcovado in Rio de Janeiro and Giulin in China. Today, three striking monoliths in the…

Liberal Arts Blog — Tuesday is the Joy of Literature, Language, Religion, and Culture Day Today’s Topic: Three Titans of the Catholic Church: Augustine (354–430), Benedict (480–547), Aquinas (1225–1274) Today, I decided to give myself a little quiz. I was taught by Catholic nuns for seven years and by Benedictine…

Thinking Citizen Blog — Tuesday is Economics, Finance, and Business Day Today’s Topic: The Joy of Shopping, the Joy of Investing — For Fun and Profit Do you like to shop? Some hate it. Some seem to live for it. Have you ever bought the stock of a company whose…

Liberal Arts Blog — Monday is the Joy of Math, Statistics, Shapes, and Numbers Day Today’s Topic: The Jewish Calendar — How Many New Years Are There? How Many High Holidays Are There? Who Knows? Who Cares? Growing up as a Catholic boy, I Iearned that Rosh Hashanah is the…

Thinking Citizen Blog — Monday is Foreign Policy Day Today’s Topic: Costa Rica — A Little Geography, History, Politics — What Should Every Thinking Citizen Know? Five weeks ago, Ecuador. Then, Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras. What do you know about Costa Rica that the rest of us might want…

Liberal Arts Blog — Sunday is the Joy of Humor, Food, Travel, Practical Life Tips, and Random Stuff Day Today’s Topic: Nebraska: Chimney Rock, Platte River, Omaha and the “Woodstock for Capitalists” Just met a wonderful couple from Nebraska on one of my daily walks through the Minute Man National…

Thinking Citizen Blog — Sunday is Political Process, Campaign Strategy, and Candidate Selection Day Today’s Topic: What Has President Obama Been Up to? Who Knows? Who Cares? Who Should? I feel like a total idiot. If you had asked me a week ago, where Obama has been living for the…

Thinking Citizen Blog — Saturday is Justice, Freedom, Law, and Values Day Today’s Topic: “The One Privilege Liberals Ignore” (Kristof, New York Times) One recurrent theme in this blog for the last twelve years has been the taboo at places like Harvard on the topic of family structure deterioration over…

Liberal Arts Blog — Saturday is Sports, Dance, Fitness, and All Things Physical Day Today’s Topic: Sepak Takraw — Volley Ball (No Hands) — The National Sport of Malaysia This week a few notes on a sport that I just learned about from an article in the New York Times…