There’s a coffee shop just across the glass doors of the library on campus. It’s called the Middle Ground for some unknown reason. I got my first mocha there one September morning, because an 8am music theory class had drained my brain. The fall sunlight gleamed through the stained-glass windows to shine on the jars…
Plane crash after plane crash after plane crash: the 1980s and 1990s were disastrous years for airlines around the world: in particular, Korean Air and Avianca. The worst part was that no one could figure out why. For a plane crash to occur, there are many errors that must accumulate atop each other—in addition to…
One day in the mid-1980s, a Canadian man took his wife and sons to a Lethbridge Broncos hockey game in Alberta. As the man, a psychologist named Roger Barnsley, watched the game with his sons, his wife Paula scanned the roster listing the players’ names, height, weight, and date of birth. She discovered something. Why…