Different Ways of Weighing the Same Short Story
What counts more to you - style or substance? Can a woman write a male lead as credibly as she writes a female lead? Can…
Author: Robert Hamill
Aggregate Effects of the Top 1% Earners
With 93% of income growth being taken by the Top 1%, the salaries of workers and lower level managers are barely growing, so the nation’s…
Class Warfare and Status Quo
If unrest and riots are quelled without adjustments in societal and economic reality, they will reoccur—like earthquakes which always has us wondering, "Is this the…
Aggregate Effects in the National Economy
Increased consumption by retained minimum wage workers boosts the economy.
Patterns and Creative Work
Patterns are good to start creative work, but concrete details are needed to be understandable to others and to finish the creation. An example, I…
Relating a Story with a Mysterious Worldview
Hitherto, I could only notice the effect and relate it to a mysterious control the author had over the story. Now I see a way…
Story or Essay
Diem Perdidi by Julie Otsuka It's a good example of the difference to a reader between a story and an essay. Ms. Otsuka could have…
Memory Types
Working memory has two special processes to note. The visual-spatial scratchpad helps us answer questions like 'how many windows in your house?' We also have…
Boston Bombing and Texas Fertilizer Explosion Effects
The Texas disaster was worse in than Boston horror, but not unique and beyond our control.