Will Wright & E O Wilson
NPR has an occasional series called Open Mic where they have a guest interview somebody they find interesting, This morning it featured two of our favorite people. The interviewer was the game designer Will...
Author: Mike Garrity
Grandpa’s Todo List
My parents were visiting this summer to get out of the Florida summer heat. My father isn’t very good at sitting still. He’s much happier if you give him a list of things to...
When a Good Idea Works
The latest issue of Technology Review has a nice article by John Maeda about the early history of Processing. Fry and Reas were students of Maeda’s at the Media Lab, and Processing was heavily...
25 August 1609
On this day 400 years ago, Galileo demonstrated his telescope in Venice. When we were in Italy last year, we visited the Museo di Storia della Scienza in Florence. They have a number of...
Charbucks and the iPhone
Ken Perlin has an interesting theory about why Starbucks coffee tastes the way it does and how that relates to the sensitivity of the iPhone’s touch pad. Why is it that the quality of...
Paleodictyon Nodosum
There’s an interesting article in the NYTimes about the search for the creature that leaves this pattern on the bottom of the ocean. This pattern was first seen in ancient rocks and were believed...
Age of Wonder
Richard Holmes has a new book called The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science. It’s about an interesting period (1770 to 1830) in England when there...
Unreason in America
A lot of commentators are amazed by the way in which a lot of public discourse in the United States has become disconnected from reality recently. For an example, go check out this article...
Equations of the Undead
At work, we love to see the work that our users are doing with our products. This paper has been a big favorite at the office recently. You can hear an interview with one...
