Blake's Blog

"If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect."

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Decisions, decisions, decisions.

We make countless decisions each and every day...every hour...every minute....

The philosopher Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) wrote about so many things...transcendental deduction, self-consciousness, transcendental synthesis,...

Before dinner tonight, I found myself in the very first Starbucks -- the one that...

Whether it's the periodic seven-year-old's question, "Why is the sky...

As I grow older, I am experiencing a number of phenomena that are new --...

On November 11, 2009 PBS's Charlie Rose welcomed Freakonomics and Superfreakonomics authors Steven...

In conducting research recently, I came across the writings of Hippocrates. Though he...

I apologize for being remiss these past three weeks and not posting -- I cling...

I was exhausted last night as I shuffled onto the plane in the dark amid...

I noticed the Michael Jackson autopsy the other day.

You know what my impression was?...

The announcement by GM yesterday that, in effect, "Saturn is dead" is a...