The rules of capitalization are so unfair to words in the middle of a sentence.

So Zeno is most famous for his tortoise paradox. Let us imagine that you are in a race with a tortoise. The tortoise has a ten-yard head start. In the time it takes you to run that ten yards, the tortoise has moved one yard. And then in the time it takes you to make up that distance, the tortoise goes a bit farther, and so on forever. You are faster than the tortoise but you can never catch him; you can only decrease his lead.

We do an epically bad job of acknowledging one another's work and checking our sources.

Right, except I'm not going to lie to my mom, because what kind of (man) lies to his own mother?

I don't think you're dying," I said. "I think you've just got a touch of cancer. He smiled. Gallows humor.

Teenagers think they are invincible

But the fascinating and unbelievable-but-true thing about Dr. Jefferson Jeffersonis that he was not a doctor of any kind. He was just an orange juice salesman named Jefferson Jefferson. When he became rich and powerful, he went to court, made "Jefferson" his middle name, and then changed his first name to "Dr." Capital D. Lowercase r. Period.