News reached us last week of the passing of Anthony Mancinelli. According to Guinness World Records, Mr. Mancinelli at 108 was the oldest working barber. Cutting hair since Warren Harding occupied the White House, the barber from Naples emigrated to the US in 1919 and opened his first shop in Newburgh, NY. He kept snipping…
Bastille Day is a French national holiday in July with fireworks and parades. This year it was also celebrated in Paris by a “dazzling” test of the Flyboard Air – a jet-powered hoverboard. Its inventor, Franky Zapata, hoped to become the first to cross the English Channel on such a vehicle. So hopes were riding…
By all accounts it was worth waiting for. The 10th Procrastination Research Conference, held last month in Chicago, featured sixty professionals – mostly psychologists and behavioral economists – from around the world. Besides reviewing the latest findings in this unusual field, attendees discussed why so many people – one in five of us – qualify…
With some anxiety, we watched our five-year-old daughter walk up to the school bus yesterday morning, on her way to the first day of kindergarten. As she climbed aboard, we overheard one of her classmates ask, “Is that your grandfather?” As a pesky questioner ourselves, we admired the young boy’s pluck. Although it injected a…