A few mean(ingful) sticks

A chair, a table, an armoire -- furniture that stays in your memory

Often, when writers use the term “counterintuitive” to describe something, I’m not sure they’ve thought it through. Take this recent Vox headline: “This counterintuitive advice about kids and phones makes a lot of sense.” Turns out the counterintuitive idea is to let little kids have smart phones. An Oxford professor tells the writer, “The kids have alw…