Blog Posts
Browse by category →- 11/4/2014 Some good science-based reading for Election Day, whether or not you voted
- 11/2/2014 Lessons to learn from pianist Dejan Lazić's attempt to remove a critic's bad review
- 11/1/2014 How I avoid demotivating myself away from voting
- 10/31/2014 Win ugly or lose pretty: do you agree?
- 10/30/2014 The Chess Improver: The common problem of following a pattern without understanding it
- 10/23/2014 The Chess Improver: Learning through comparing similar but different situations
- 10/22/2014 Climbing the Cathedral of Learning to get to the Harvard Classics
- 10/16/2014 The Chess Improver: Basic endgames teach how to tie together mathematics and logic
- 10/9/2014 The Chess Improver: The temptation to play safe can prevent improvement
- 10/5/2014 A pretty exploratory fall hike in Frick Park and Duck Hollow
- 10/2/2014 The Chess Improver: Your Pawn is threatened: do you defend, advance, or trade?
- 9/18/2014 The Chess Improver: Accept the sacrifice if the alternative is to lose anyway
- 9/17/2014 Observing Constitution Day with "The Supreme Court and Privacy: The Fourth Amendment in the Digital Age"
- 9/11/2014 The Chess Improver: The difference between a Knight developed at c3 and at d2
- 9/4/2014 The Chess Improver: Fianchettoing your King's Bishop may weaken your c4-Pawn