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Arthur Bloch (born January 1, 1948) is an American writer, author of the Murphy's Law books. [1] He has also written a self-help satire called Healing Yourself with Wishful Thinking . [ 2 ] From 1986 to 2002 he was the producer and director of the Thinking Allowed PBS television series.
Arthur Bloch compiled a number of books of corollaries to Murphy's law and variations thereof, the first being Murphy's Law, and Other Reasons Why Things Go WRONG, which received several follow-ups and reprints. [20] Yhprum's law is an optimistic reversal of Murphy's law, stating that "anything that can go right will go right". Its name ...
The adage was a submission credited in print to Robert J. Hanlon of Scranton, Pennsylvania, [2] in a compilation of various jokes related to Murphy's law published in Arthur Bloch's Murphy's Law Book Two: More Reasons Why Things Go Wrong! (1980). [1] A similar quotation appears in Robert A. Heinlein's novella Logic of Empire (1941). [3]
In this week’s Murphy’s Law, social media tribalism is wearing many of us out.
In some cases the person named has coined the law – such as Parkinson's law. In others, the work or publications of the individual have led to the law being so named – as is the case with Moore's law. There are also laws ascribed to individuals by others, such as Murphy's law; or given eponymous names despite the absence of the named person ...
A handcuffed inmate whose fatal beating by correctional officers last year sparked outrage died by homicide, according to findings of an autopsy report a lawyer for the man's family shared Wednesday.
— Arthur Bloch, Murphy's Law and Other Reasons Why Things Go Wrong!, 1977 October, pg. 18 Notably, the book's acknowledgements mention Conrad Schneiker, who had written about Ginsberg's theorem in The CoEvolution Quarterly just two years prior in 1975.
A key group of Arab nations have said they “firmly” reject any efforts to resettle or evict Palestinians from Gaza, after US President Donald Trump said he wanted to “clean out” the ...