make good neighbours. this use of geolocation and RFID tags to create virtual fences for voracious kenyan elephants is brilliant! but reall...

my efforts to avoid working on these papers reach new heights of creativity almost on a daily basis. today, i took a short run out into alls...

after pestering miscellaneous individuals for months, i finally made it to the ICA today with hila, ariel, and hammer--just in time to catch...

when i was growing up, there was a regrettable phase during which my extended family invested heavily in karaoke, including expensive equipm...

merry christmas and other non-denominational greetings in addition. as usual, old masters can be relied on to save the day when predictabili...

i've been trying to articulate this thought for a while, and found someone else who did it for me (georg von wright, found in howard bec...

a few of us met on friday morning to review material for the hackman exam. around noon, a few flakes of snow began to fall. by 4pm, the grou...

Above all, re-evaluation of group traits requires propaganda. Roger Brown , Social Psychology (566)

In carrying on my own humble creative effort, I depend greatly on that which I do not yet know, and upon that which I have not yet done. Max...

there have been little other than hefty chunks from the stuff i happen to be reading. the last few weeks of term are always a stretch; every...

Understanding evolves through three phases: simplistic, complex, and profoundly simple. William Schutz , Profound Simplicity, 69 .

An incredible number of dice, always rolling, dominate and determine each individual existence: uncertainty, then, in the realm of individua...

in the beginning of important things—in the beginning of love, in the beginning of the day, in the beginning of any work—there is a moment w...

There are many ways of seeing, but the truest and best is with the intuition, for it takes in the whole, whereas the intellect only takes in...

co-operation and democracy within groups do not necessarily lead to democracy and co-operation with outgroups, if the directions and interes...

ferran adria was at harvard yesterday, speaking at the invitation of the school of engineering and applied sciences. so many people came tha...

In other words, the scientific observer's decision to study the social world under an objective or subjective frame of reference circums...

i wrote this in 2005 , and found it again by chance today while attending a conference on organizational design. apropos now, given the degr...

from the atlas of true names oh, the romance . recall ursula le guin, the international barcode of life, and the true names of things .

photo by ben snyder

photo by craig edelman, the obliging housemate a long overdue birthday gift for the transparent hummingbird (see here and here ), finall...

Claudia said, "But, Mrs. Frankweiler, you should want to learn one new thing every day. We did even at the museum." "No,...

ipomoea batatas , you are my helpmeet. having made two sweet potato pies in the last two days, here is the freshly-tuned, officially-sanctio...

swerrrrrrt .

marrrrrvelous .

The expansion of the circle that fills the view and interest of individuals may frequently give rise to a particular form of egoism that eng...

The felt insecurity concerning the basis of such relations often moves us, who desire to maintain the relation at all cost, to acts of exagg...

and craig and jenny thought there wouldn't be enough food. they were disabused of the notion by 4.30pm, at which time the side counter w...

oblong industries is developing an operating environment that relies on gestural input and thus allows data presentation in more than the u...

who's bryan? no clue, but the pictures here are sweet.