The long way home
"Let your eyes look directly forward, and your eyelids will straighten your path." --Proverbs Or, as Yogi Berra said, if you don't know...
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Yonason Goldson
- Jul 7, 2020
- 1 min
Keep your hands to yourself
Is COVID the cure for saving social intercourse? Despite the mandate to shelter-in-place imposed by COVID-19, an astonishing number of...
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Yonason Goldson
- Jun 30, 2020
- 1 min
The world is going insane
Where are you going to put your trust? In technology? In government? In experts and pundits? There's only one place to put your trust:...
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Yonason Goldson
- Dec 9, 2019
- 1 min
Context is everything
We complain about the cold. We complain about the heat. We complain when we have too much going on. We complain when we have not enough...
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Yonason Goldson
- Dec 5, 2019
- 1 min
The gift of disorder
For a better life, look for and forward to the unexpected Ralph Waldo Emerson famously remarked that a foolish consistency is the...
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Yonason Goldson
- Dec 3, 2019
- 1 min
Randomness may save your life
Do you know which is farther east -- New York City or Caracas Venezuela? Does it matter? More than you might think. Our brains like...
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Yonason Goldson
- Aug 19, 2019
- 1 min
The Gender Paradox
A deep dive into the androgyny of great leadership Successful leaders instinctively pivot between the competing roles of commander and...
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Yonason Goldson
- Aug 14, 2019
- 1 min
And the answer is...
Some problems have no answers. Some answers are slow in coming. Or, as John Lennon sang: there are no problems; only solutions. We want...
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Yonason Goldson
- Apr 2, 2019
- 2 min
Something's melting faster than the icecaps
If we want to solve our problems at the top of the world, we need to start by looking at the ground beneath our feet Tucker Carlson is...
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Yonason Goldson
- Mar 4, 2019
- 5 min
Two cheers for pain
Reaching for the Aspirin bottle is not the only option I'm a big fan of headaches. Not at the moment I'm having one, of course. But...
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Yonason Goldson
- Feb 27, 2019
- 3 min
The latest theory of why we are here
The universe is not what it seems. Neither are we. Big Bang. Spontaneous generation. Evolution. Natural selection. According to...
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Yonason Goldson
- Feb 5, 2019
- 1 min
Are you a lunatic?
Let the moon guide you through the dark phases of your life Well, it's a marvelous night for a moondance. Why? Because today the moon is...
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Yonason Goldson
- Jan 16, 2019
- 3 min
Adversity is in the eye of the beholder
Sometimes we only learn to see after the lights go out Imagine that you woke up this morning to discover that you’d lost your eyesight? ...
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Yonason Goldson
- Jan 9, 2019
- 1 min
Wee beasties
The wisdom of John Simpson, my Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh.
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Yonason Goldson
- Jan 3, 2019
- 2 min
The Midpoint of the World
I'll begin the year by revisiting these thoughts from 2016. What would you ask of a time traveler from a hundred years ago? And if you...
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Yonason Goldson
- Dec 20, 2018
- 1 min
3 tips to program your internal GPS
To drive in Israel can be a near-death experience. In some ways it’s better than it used to be. Traffic has gotten so dense that drivers...
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Yonason Goldson
- Dec 5, 2018
- 3 min
Mapping the genome of the soul
The festival of Chanukah warns that light can become darkness As you’ve surely heard by now, a Chinese geneticist announced last week...
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Yonason Goldson
- Nov 28, 2018
- 3 min
Your career may be killing you -- literally
A new study suggests that choosing the wrong job can destroy your will to live Do you want to live a long and happy life? If so, don’t...
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