A recent article in the Wall Street Journal suggests that if your company uses a robot to fire one of your employees—a slowly evolving trend—you’d better make sure the robot isn’t too human about it.

AIRLINES. First, they need to do something to make the first and last legs of a flight as smooth as it can be when a plane reaches its desired sweet spot of altitude and the beverage and lousy-snack bag service kicks in. I realize neither physics nor aeronautics are in my wheelhouse—and that I haven’t the slightest idea what a wheelhouse (technically, the shelter for a ship captain) has to do with one’s skill set—but can’t something be done to make ascents and descents less frightening?

Between the Marvel and D.C. universes of all-gender 24/7 super-heroes, you’d think the human race would finally be out of trouble. And yet we still have wars, pandemics, climate change and Alex Jones.

Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse: “Over-salting and drenching your beef in butter.” Since 1927.

According to The Wall Street Journal, a new adoption/foster-parenting dilemma is arising—and this time it involves neither humans nor pets.

Since we use numbers to indicate so many things in our lives—from baseball scores to body weight to the cost of gasoline—why, when it comes to our age, do we feel the need to insist, “It’s just a number”?