Sometimes more harmful than “sticks and stones,” gender word barriers create images of women that demean their professional skills.…
How Color Helps Firms Compete
When the tiny box is robin egg blue or the delivery truck is brown, those color trademarks convey an identity that makes color more meaningful.…
The Problem With Bovine Burps
Reducing environmental externalities from greenhouse gas emissions involves the methane that cows and other ruminants burp.…
Chips and Cheese Insight
For complementary goods and services like cheese and chips, peanut butter and jelly or weddings and bridal gowns, their demand rises and falls together.…
Is Our Resource Use More Sustainable Than the Word Sustainable?
Sustainable: Pondering sustainability through an xkcd lens took me to other “green” ngrams. As described by xkcd, the graph represents the frequency of the use of each word in Googl…
The One Big Reason We Can't Really Cut the Federal Deficit
It is tough to be a deficit hawk. Rather than our typical spike in wartime spending, we have a peacetime deficit. (Please note that the federal deficit is just how much spending exceeds revenue…
The Benefits of "Pay-It-Forward"
Perhaps a pay-it-forward record, at a Connecticut Starbucks, more than 1,000 people each paid for the person behind them during December 2013. The store manager was on to something when he said, ̶…
Cow Burps and Global Warming
As most of us know, cow burps add to global warming. So too do the methane releases of sheep, goats and other ruminant animals. In a recent opinion piece in Nature Climate Change, a group of researche…