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...
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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...
Filming in Lexington
This evening when we went into Lexington to have dinner and go to the library we found many extra people milling around and massive bundles of cables running up and down the sidewalks. It...
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...
Obama’s Big Startup
TechDirt and Anil Dash each have interesting articles (link, link) about Aneesh Chopra and Vivek Kundra. Those are the guys that the new administration put in charge of overhauling the federal government’s IT infrastructure...
Meteorite on Mars
The Opportunity rover is still chugging along after more than five years on Mars. Look what it recently discovered on its way to Endeavor crater. Yes, that’s a meteorite. It’s about 2 feet across...
Illusion of Accomplishment
Infinite Summer (which I mentioned earlier) is sort of an online book club which is reading David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest this summer. I don’t want to spoil the book if you haven’t read...
Fields of Fire
Today we went snorkeling (not unlike any other day in Aruba). We were snorkeling in Mangel Halto, which had amazing amounts of fire coral. All this fire coral I have named the Fields of...
Balloon Fishing
Every evening outside the house we’re renting, there are a number of people standing on the reef blowing up party balloons and throwing them into the water. It turns out they’re fishing. Malmok reef...
Perseids and Baby Beach
Last night and tonight, we all sat out on the beach and watched for meteors. It’s time for the Perseids. It’s really nice and dark here on Aruba, but we weren’t very successful. We...
