If you are into baseball and its fascinating inner workings as I am (By the way, how about the Nationals?), I would recommend checking out two recent books: “The MVP Machine” by Ben Lindbergh and Travis Sawchik, and “Astroball” by Ben Reiter.

Sometimes we might take the readily available supply of water the large majority of us enjoy for granted.

If you think about it, customer service is everywhere in our daily lives.

One of my odd childhood memories is taking the bus to high school my first two years and watching the from-the-ground-up construction of a new golf course located behind our subdivision.

It’s an electronic communication-themed month here at pme.

If it’s the June issue of pme, that means it’s time to name our annual rep of the year.

Notre Dame Cathedral burned as I finished the Fire Protection & Design Special Section for this month’s magazine, a tragic coincidence.

There’s an old saying, repeated in the recent novel “Asymmetry” by Lisa Halliday, about how “the foreign journalist who travels to the Middle East and stays a week goes home to write a book in which he presents a pat solution to all of its problems.

There’s a one-panel strip of the absurdist newspaper comic “The Far Side” that I remember well from childhood. It shows human-sized insects sitting in a theater for a horror movie called “Return of the Killer Windshield.” It still makes me laugh when I think about it, but the joke probably works better visually than verbally.

Unintended consequences, that close cousin of mislaid plans, can claim some responsibility for a current conundrum: low-flow fixtures paired with existing oversized piping helped create the growing crisis of legionella bacteria.