The Olympic Games start in just a few weeks. Ad Age has reported that NBC is likely to lose money on the Olympics for the first time ever. To me the Olympics should be a slam dunk, even in a down economy, and the ability to sell advertising space ought [...]

In graduate school I knew a lot of miserable people. The academic grind had beaten them down, robbed them of the passion they once felt for their areas of expertise. Not me! I had pushed my chips into the center, giving myself over to my work (math modeling of animal [...]