Will’s World 2012: Transformations and New Eras

By Will Carlin In December of 2012, the world was supposed to end. It didn't. The 2012 "phenomenon" was due to numerous beliefs that a number...

Will’s World Repeats

By Will Carlin In mid-November of last year, something occurred that only happens once every hundred years—the date, as commonly written, had six repeats of the same...

Will’s World @Squash

By Will Carlin Near the end of 2005, a group of friends worked at a podcasting company called Odeo, Inc. in South Park, San Francisco....

Will’s World Go Mental

By Will Carlin The target for competitive shooters is incredibly small. The fifty meter rifle target has a diameter roughly equal to the length of...

Will’s World Control

In 1972, a number of Yale University students replied to a help wanted ad seeking proofreaders for pay. When these students arrived for their appointments,...

Will’s World Reading in the Off Season

By Will Carlin The first time I was given a summer reading list at the end of a school year, it was a list of “suggested”...

Will’s World Class

By Will Carlin In 1957, one of the most popular game shows on television was You Bet Your Life hosted by Groucho Marx of The Marx...

Will’s World The Cure

By Will Carlin Near the end of the final day of the Skill Level Championships, I was chatting with Justin Mather from Georgia, who had...

Will’s World: Take Note

By Will Carlin My high school squash notebook looks like a rainbow. For some unremembered reason, I was rigorous about keeping my notes in a...

Mr. Weymuller

By Will Carlin When I was eleven years old, I thought that wearing a Captain Kirk uniform to school was pretty cool. I was sure...