Since you’re reading the newspaper for the latest scoop on Pacific events, I’ll only roll back about 2,600 years and consider some wisdom from ancient Greece. OK, so I’m missing your expectations a bit, but let’s not dwell on that. So here we go: A fable from Aesop mentions that...

I’m not much of a picture taker, but when I saw a MiG-21 jet on display at a museum I went full shutter-bug and burned though my last roll of film. Do you know they don’t sell that stuff any longer? I’m always the last to get the memo. Anyway, the MiG-21 has...

Here’s a term that puts some academic weight behind an age-old truth: the “Dunning-Kruger effect.” I noticed the term in a recent missive about a public administration issue in Guam. I don’t have any stake in that issue, but the notion of the...

Technology can tempt us to snub mental math and to trust machines to tell us everything. Well, call me old-school, but I like keeping my brain engaged in reality’s texture. For those of similar mind, I’m going to mention a few basic tidbits that have proven useful when straddling...