Morality & Reason
The Templeton Foundation recently asked a number of scholars the following question: Does moral action depend on reasoning? Their answers are all pretty interesting. You can check them out here. Several of them reference...
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Cambridge Science Festival
The Cambridge Science Festival is this week. It’s an annual event where scientists and engineers from all over Cambridge come out to show the public how exciting doing science is. We went to a...
Becoming a Lifeguard
I got certified on Friday. The hardest part of the final testing was rescuing someone from the bottom of the pool and getting them out without them ‘dying’. To do this I needed to...
World to Come
Last night we went to see cellist Maya Beiser. She was one of the founding members of Bang on a Can. She now does solo work, including a number of pieces where she performs...
Post-post-partisanship
David Brook’s column this morning is a pretty good analysis of what happened to the promise of post-partisan governance we saw such a short glimmer of a while back. The short version is that...
Patriot’s Day
Today is the biggest holiday of the year here in Lexington. Peter marched in the first parade this morning. It was sunny, but it was kind of chilly. After the parade, we went to...
Dwarf Fortress Computer
Earlier this year my friend showed me the game dwarf fortress. Dwarf Fortress is like nethack but you control multiple dwarves. You create a dwarven colony. My dad showed me this. It is a...
The iPad controversy
You’ve probably heard some of the noise about how riled up programmers are getting about the iPad (link1, link2, link3). The basic issue has to do with with the tension between hardware vendors and...
A4 Teardown
Because Apple didn’t use an off the shelf processor for the iPad, there’s been a lot of speculation about exactly what’s inside it. The guys at iFixit, with some help from Chipworks, have posted...
History of Multi-Touch UIs
Now that everyone is starting to get lawyered up about multi-touch UIs, it’s good to take a look at Bill Buxton’s excellent history of multi-touch systems. This sort of thing happens pretty regularly. It’s...
