Personal favourite - how a bit of very clever thinking by a mathematician saved hundreds of B17 bomber crews in Europe.
A B17 bomber going down, before Abraham Wald’s mathem...
I think this Soviet doctor’s self-appendectomy qualifies! Leonid Rogozov, 27, was part of a 12 person expedition to Antarctica in 1961 and he was the only doctor. In March,...
Here’s the secret:
No one will even notice or care if the last button of your shirt is buttoned or not. Whether people will get the reason for not buttoning the last button ...
My date and I had booked a room at a NYC hotel that was very close to Times Square. It was cheap - very, very, cheap - for NY, so we were sure it would be lousy. But we jus...
I told a senior manager at Microsoft that he was wrong.
And it taught me the most important lesson of my career.
Let’s rewind. I was a lowly software engineering intern at Mi...
"Have you ever been shot in the knee? If so, how bad did it hurt?"
Oddly enough, I can answer this question.
It was a negligent discharge from the Marine next to me, seconds ...
Jamaica. Never again.
I went with a friend to an all inclusive resort. It was fine as long as we stayed on the resort. As soon as we stepped off the grounds the scamming sta...
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