though the streets were overrun with orange, kettle korn, people in bad costumes, and fake cobwebs, jaho on the waterfront was empty and ...

[from the archive] R&D in high-end cuisine looks a lot like R&D anywhere else, but some of its frustrations are domain-specifi...

a 17-hour, 9.1 mile loop, with detours due to poor navigation. in order: everyman on west broadway, chambers street, some nyc city agencies,...

edge.org interviews daniel lieberman . of particular note: ... there's a reversal of class today. Now, it's only the very wealthy...

what does a low entropy life look like? and is the only way to reduce entropy locally to export it into the enclosing system? i hope this i...

it's been a few years since i was up late in snowmass after a day at the woodshop reading annie dillard's  for the time being , a ma...

Pelorat said, "It seems to me, Golan, that the advance of civilization is nothing but an exercise in the limiting of privacy." ...

The grid is not only predictable but indeterminate, not only prescriptive but ambiguous. albert pope, "the open city," in ladd...

backstage at the ignobels , a suitcase is re-filled with appealingly goofy  frog-shaped pitch/volume instruments . from japan, of course...

To live well in community, our individual consumption and acquisition will be reined in and held by the bonds of inconvenience. In turn, we...

shock cord makes jack purcell much easier. this is MSR's silicone-core product  intended for replacing tent-pole cords. you will also...

in revere, mass. on a hot and cloudy day, after a lobster roll of truly epic size, it is entirely appropriate to take a cone of soft serve f...

(a crocheted robot, of course.)

Being in Boston ... it's a little bit like meeting someone who you know is smart and very accomplished but is at the same time not at a...

freedom is often misunderstood as the absence of constraints on your action. this is not the case: freedom is your ability to voluntarily ch...

last night, we talked about the difference between services that allow users to be remotely co-present and those that allow users to remotel...

as ever,  xkcd  is a trenchant observer of our world. in this case, i have shanghaied this comic to concisely make the claim that it is ofte...

jess, our midwest correspondent , sends a poem in book spines from the shelves of michigan's largest bookstore . Look no further: ...

There were some good students, and wonderful moments. I think of a class I taught in Philadelphia one evening, at a reformatory. The studen...

this is the official bonbon of the academy of management's organizational behavior division. (milk chocolate with artificially flav...

Science originated from the fusion of two old traditions, the tradition of philosophical thinking that began in ancient Greece and the trad...

edward tufte 's film —  about what  inge druckrey (a swiss graphic designer on the faculty at the university of the arts in philadelphi...

asobi , by yasutoki kariya [via spoon and tamago ]

from detroit, jess sends fresh garlic, music, coffee, jam (a new siri-undertaking), white rabbits, fruit, a book . the moustache is for ...