Tag: Big

The NCAA season has come to a satisfying conclusion with Connecticut (one of the top-50 states in America) once again lifting the wooden plaque with a base thing that we’ll call a trophy. That means it is now time to rank the NBA draft prospects in this year’s class with an exercise I ca...

Lewis Carroll’s Alice books hold a unique place in Japanese culture. The appearance of these works coincided with a key moment in the modernity of the island nation. They went on to become central, not only to the canon of children’s literature, but literature writ large, as we...

My parents came to the US as immigrants. They had no one. Then they had us. Some years, Thanksgiving was a very small affair. My parents prioritized making it special for us, cooking foods they didn’t know, willingly embracing the culture of their new homeland. I remember Pillsbury Crescent Ro...

The above title highlights the interplay within our current healthcare system. Much like Goldilocks, Big Pharma would like us ‘just right’: A population sick enough to demand their products, alive long enough to maintain supply. Pharmaceutical companies are in constant pursuit for pro...

From time to time my teenage son and I will go in for a little bit of Lebowski riffing. Should my son advance into the playoffs in one high school sport or another I will say to him, à la Jesús: “I see you roll your way into the semis. Dios mio man…” ...

There are few things we can conceive of that are as mind-bogglingly large as space is. Our observable Universe, out to the deepest recesses of space that we can possibly see, takes us out some 46 billion light-years in all directions. From the Big Bang until now, our Universe has expanded while grav...

This question is one of those things you ask yourself late at night before trying to sleep, which ultimately results in less sleep… The Big Bang is our current theory about how everything began, the beginning of the universe and existence itself. Thinking about such an idea can be mind-bog...