top ten lists

The information age was supposed to place the accumulated knowledge of civilization at everyone’s fingertips. Instead, much of that information appears to have been put… Read More

Business casual once meant khakis, loafers, and a collared shirt without a tie worn by people who wanted to look employable without appearing eager. Today,… Read More

Customer service was created to solve problems. Increasingly, however, it has come to resemble performance art, an elaborate theatrical production in which solving problems would… Read More

Most explanations of why dogs run away focus on practical matters such as open gates, thunderstorms, or a slow moving cat with poor judgment. Those… Read More

The arrival of a new neighbor usually follows a familiar script. A moving truck appears, someone accidentally backs over a shrub, and within forty-eight hours… Read More

A growing number of Chester county residents report that their 911 calls have been routed to the county’s newly established improvisation department, an experimental unit… Read More

Parents choose unique baby names hoping to avoid trends, conformity, and the chance that other children in the same classroom will answer when their child… Read More

The signs that your hobby defines you rarely appear all at once. You begin, for example, by taking up bird watching. Six months later you… Read More