On October 17, 1969, the Wall Street Journal reported that Boeing and Lockheed plan to cooperate on a ‘space shuttle’. It took less than 10 years to go to the moon, and 12 years to launch the space shuttle (which never quite reached its potential, in terms of frequency and regularity of flight).
Monthly Archives: August 2009
The Calculus of Friendship
Steven Strogatz, my graduate school advisor, just released a wonderful book entitled The Calculus of Friendship. It’s about Steve’s thirty-year-long friendship with his high school math teacher, told through the letters they wrote to each other. But here’s the catch: while the stories of both Steve’s and Mr. Joffray’s lives are recounted in the book [...]
Football and the ‘Time-In’
My most recent article for the Boston Globe Ideas section, entitled Start the Clock: A Modest Proposal For Improving Football: the Time-In is out. It’s a light-hearted discussion of a proposed football rule change (a ‘time-in’ for starting the clock up again) in the context of how time affects football.
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Mad Men and ‘Confessions of an Advertising Man’
With the new season of Mad Men arriving in about a week, I would be remiss if I didn’t mention a book that I just finished reading called Confessions of an Advertising Man (1963). Written by David Ogilvy, one of the great ad men of the fifties and sixties, it is essentially a how-to guide [...]
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WSJ Looks Back in Time
About once a day, the Wall Street Journal collects a few articles from its archives that are relevant to today’s news and posts them online. For example, interested in the Sotomayor confirmation process? Then you might also be interested in seeing how the Wall Street Journal covered the nomination of Louis Brandeis, back in 1916. [...]
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