I don't think I'm always right, but I would like to empower people to come to sound conclusions using a systematic way of looking at things.

We can be skeptical, suitably skeptical, and we can trust news outlets, some more than others.

Americans spend more money on music than on sex or prescription drugs

In order to understand one person speaking to us, we need to process 60 bits of information per second.

Librarians are more important than ever before ... are uniquely qualified to help all of us separate the digital wheat from the chaff, to help us understand the reliability of the data we encounter.

When a language advances and adds a third term to its lexicon for color, the third term is always red.

In order to be a world-class expert in anything, be it audiology, drama, music, art, gymnastics, whatever, one needs to have a minimum of 10,000 hours of practice. Unfortunately, it doesn't mean that if you put in 10,000 hours that you will become an expert, but there aren't any cases where someone has achieved world-class mastery without it! So the time spent at the activity is indeed the most important and influential factor.