As we round the corner into 2025, countless people will decide to “lose weight” or “get in shape” in the new year. Most of them will show up on January 2 with no plan, ready for whatever progress they ...

In a reply to a recent post I published on death and the meaning of life, a reader identified as Anonymous wrote, among other things, "I think life is meaningless in a vacuum. One imposes value upon ...

Value is "the human cobweb," as Jerome Kagan aptly put it. To know anything about spiders, you have to understand the one thing that makes them unlike all other insects: They make cobwebs. To know ...