During Akita, an 11-day festival that began on the first new moon after the Spring equinox, ancient Babylonians made New Year’s resolutions to keep themselves in good standing with the Gods. Currently, about 25% of people who make New Year’s resolutions give up during the first two weeks of January. Do you think that was also true for our fellow Babylonians 4000 years ago? Now that I have a couple of years of new year resolution-making under my belt, I have learned that the resolutions that haven’t seen the finish line need to be taken apart to reveal their core and be addressed by tiny experiments.