What determines value? If you subscribe to Karl Marx’s labor theory of value, value is determined by the amount of socially necessary labor necessary to create a good or provide a service; a car is valuable because travel people without access to public transportation need to be able to travel…

The first time the word “fibromyalgia” was used to describe chronic pain was in 1976. It can manifest in different ways — dull aches, dizziness, difficulty sleeping, bowel and bladder issues, et cetera. The common thread in those who suffer from fibromyalgia, however, is that nobody knows what causes it…

After 20 years, $2 trillion, 2,420 dead American troops, 65,596 dead Afghan troops, and 47,245 dead Afghan civilians, we are exactly where we started. Over the course of the past two weeks, a month before the 20th anniversary of the September 11th, 2001, attacks, Joe Biden pulled the United States’…

Computers are ruining football. Twenty years ago, the opposite was true in sports, particularly baseball — scouts were valued because of their eye for the game when there was statistical empirical evidence contrary to what their eye told them. Things got better though; thanks to innovations like Billy Bean’s sabermetric…

On January 6th, 2020, supporters of Donald Trump stormed the Capitol Building in Washington, DC, in an effort to stop the certification of Joe Biden’s win. Was it a coup? Not really, the results were certified later that night. Was it an attempted coup? Not in the traditional sense, the…

As I write this, Joe Biden, the candidate who was pitched as the safe and electable choice (much like Hillary Clinton was in 2016), is on day three of waiting to see if he won enough votes in either Pennsylvania, Georgia, South Carolina and Nevada, or Arizona and Nevada, to…