January 5-9, 2015
Roberta tried out the Japanese art of decluttering and offered vindication to pilers like me with news of a study finding that people who organize paperwork in piles accumulate less stuff than those neatniks who file them.
Guest poster Anne Sasso told us about her devotion to a pocket calculator so beloved that it sometimes induces magical thinking.
Washington DC had a snow day, and Helen got giddy like a kid.
Craig sets out on a paleolithic adventure, notices that the tasks involved unwittingly split along gender lines, and that gets him thinking about “the incredible shrinking prehistoric woman.” (No word on whether his group tried the “paleo” diet.)
Erik compares movie clips to footage of rock climbers falling in real life to illustrate what Hollywood gets wrong about falls.