Getting Ahead
People who go with the flow are more likely to get ahead. This is certainly true in most employment situations...
Category: Travel
Words Seldom Seen: Lacuna
Lacuna Noun: An unfilled space, a gap. Example: "The lacuna in the book was the lack of discussion of where...
Marchetti’s Constant
“Humans are willing to commute for roughly an hour per day.” Cesare Marchetti, Italian...
Migration is the Solution
"Migration is not the problem; it is the solution." "Migration will save us because it is migration that made...
Words Seldom Seen: Orthogonal
Orthogonal Adjective: 1. At right angles. 2. Having mutually independent elements. Example: "Because the...
Words Seldom Seen: Saturnine
Saturnine Adjective: Exhibiting a gloomy, surly, sardonic attitude. Basically a downer. Has astrological...
Nationalism
“Nationalism only becomes poisonous when the dose is too large.” This classical Japanese print was given to...
Words Seldom Seen: Bromide
Bromide Noun: A chemical used as a sedative. Now more commonly used to describe a hackneyed saying meant to...
Words Seldom Seen: Gnosis
Gnosis Noun: esoteric knowledge of apparent spiritual truth. From the Greek word for knowledge. Example: "He...
Making the Noise
“Work hard in secret and let the success make the noise.” A & J Liquor and Tobacco Store,...
