Rob Gardiner

How funny are you? Are you any good at making your friends laugh? What about staying on-topic? Can you add to the subject at hand without going off on a tangent? How quickly can you react? Everyone else at the table is going to put in their two cents, and

Medical school never prepared you for this. You are well versed in state-of-the-art 1850s medical treatment – prescribing arsenic for cholera patients, or a generous application of leeches for typhoid. But if you want to be a partner in this practice, you’ll have to do better than that. You need

Dixit may be the only Spiel des Jahres winner named after a logical fallacy. The Latin phrase “ipse dixit” refers to the fallacious “argument from authority.” Out here in the real world, we accept an argument because of the evidence that supports it. We reject an argument if it defies

Blackbeard the Pirate is on a mission. He cautiously descends the slope of the mesa until his goal, Lith’s Lair, is in sight. His quest: to offer one of the greatest treasures of mankind – a pound of bacon – to the supercomputer known as Lith. His footwear: a pair of

The title of this review is a quote from Alphonse Gabriel Capone, leader of The Chicago Outfit. Al was a “businessman” specializing in the distribution of beverages of an intoxicating nature. This was the era of Prohibition. Thanks to the wet blankets and bluenoses of the era, the manufacture and