A while back, a friend told me an interesting story about his family’s new car with a built-in GPS.  This was before GPS was so widespread.  It was a big deal that this car had one and that it worked so accurately.  After he had owned the car for a few weeks, I asked him what it was like for all the drivers in his family to be able to be guided to their destination audibly.  He hesitated and then said, “Uh, funny thing about that.  We all recently admitted that as good as the GPS  system was, one by one, we had stopped using it altogether.” When...

I read an article a while back about an interesting discovery that was made when scientists examined the tracking data from Apollo 11, the first successful moon launch.  What they found from the data was that the vast majority of the time, the lunar rocket was off track.  This discovery I thought was significant considering what they were able to achieve. The lunar rocket was able to correct it’s course partly by aiming for the moon again.  Despite where they were at any particular moment, they could always point the rocket toward where they wanted to...

One of the most difficult questions facing couples when they consider the idea of a lifelong commitment to their partner is “Will I always be loved the way I am now?” and “Will I always love this person with whom I am presently in love?” People’s hesitancy to commit is understandable. What could be worse than committing yourself to a partner for life only to find that after a while, you no longer love them or vice versa. If we could be sure that the answer to both questions was “Yes,” committing to another would be fairly easy. The problem...