Everyone learns the mean. Some make it to the variance. A few even get standard deviation tattooed on their soul. But almost no one meets the Gini mean difference....
Development doesn’t happen in a vacuum. At every step, local planning commissions, zoning boards and courts regulate what can be built, where, and how quickly. These systems are designed to...
Someone recently wrote, “If it was billions of years old, the sun should have burned out long ago.”” It was offered in support of a creationist argument, though without...
Harry Lee Williams was born in August 1885 in Honey Creek Township, White County, Indiana. The son of Thornton Robert Williams and Ida May Adams, Harry was raised in...
There is a special joy in designing something new that still feels old. A coat of arms has this property: rooted in tradition, yet reinterpreted through the choices of its...
Every four years, Americans are reminded that they do not elect the president directly. They vote for electors, members of something called the Electoral College, who cast the real...
Tartans carry the weight of tradition. They are imagined as ancient patterns, clan-bound, Highland-tested, and restricted to those who can trace their ancestry back to some moor or glen. The...
The United States Postal Service is one of the most quietly extraordinary systems in modern life. It is not magical or divine. It works because hundreds of thousands of...
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