You are walking back to your office in the rain and your path is lined by a row of trees. You could walk under the trees or you could walk in the open. Which will keep you drier? If it just start...
Its 61F today in Chicago and its going to push 70 tomorrow. According to my phone it will drop down to normal seasonal temperatures by the end of the week but according to my phone that downwar...
If you got out a pencil and graphed my kids’ time outside, with the date on the horizontal axis and the number of hours spent outside (and not fraying their parents nerves alternately bickering...
https://cheaptalk.org/2012/09/20/summer-vacation-should-be-in-the-winter/
Scott Ogawa has the floor: Consider heterogeneous group of people who have different internal temperatures. In the Summer, people who are really hot complain a lot to the building manager, since...
https://cheaptalk.org/2012/02/06/why-its-too-hot-inside-in-the-winter-and-too-cold-in-the-summer/
Emperor penguins form a group huddle to share warmth as they wait for eggs to hatch. How do they coordinate? Emperor penguins are the only vertebrates that breed during the austral winter where...
Two aspects of our taste for good weather are in force in the Spring. First, we enjoy the warmer weather but we have diminishing marginal utility for higher and higher temperatures. Second, w...
https://cheaptalk.org/2011/04/12/how-to-minimize-the-joy-of-spring/
Thanks to everyone who suggested restaurants. I went to three: Rootdown Denver. The clear favorite. Loud, trendy, waitstaff heavily tattooed. Small plates for under $10 each. I had beet...
You did take my advice didn’t you? If you did, then because of the January effect, you bought the S&P500 at 1180.55 on November 30 and sold it on the first trading day of the new year, yester...
https://cheaptalk.org/2011/01/04/your-gratitude-is-commission-enough/
I don’t mean breaking and entering. It’s New Years Eve — 2PM on New Years Eve — and after heading out for a quick lunch I return to find The Jacobs Center locked for the weekend. Ther...
https://cheaptalk.org/2011/01/03/how-to-get-into-a-locked-building/
Made it to Brooklyn alive. I don’t see what the big deal is, some nice chap shoveled me a spot and even gave me a free chair! From @TheWordAt. Speaking of which, have you noticed the similarity...