I love Europe. Sensible design, a noticeable lack of hucksterism. And I’m at the airport which is an entirely commercial space. It’s just … better. Expensive, though. I am enjoying a strawberry smoothie, nicknamed the “Pick Me Up”, and a double espresso. It’s running me 74 kroner… not sure how many $ or even Euro […]
As long as I’m on the trail of bits of ideas, here’s one. Take a UAV, or unmanned aerial vehicle. Or drone. Make it small. Done, right? We’ve got those little hobby quad-copters you can get for a few hundred bucks in the B&H catalog. Now, make it smaller. Like a dragonfly. It can land […]
As long as I’m thinking about writing projects, and as long as I’m confident that nobody will ever look at this (thus possibly getting me in trouble), here is another writing project. I’ve actually put pen to paper about this and started something, but I have no idea where it’s going to go. It’s “speculative […]
In line with my belief that NOBODY will ever read this, I hereby store a list of unfinished projects. Some were really good ideas that time has enervated, some would have long been thrown away even if I had finished them. But I think a leitmotif in my life is the Unfinished Project. I may […]
Peter takes St. John’s Wort.
Peevish complaining about American Hustle getting all the attention and Inside Llewyn Davis getting none.
Colin Woodard’s American Nations, and Nate Silver’s move away from politics and toward sports.
Thanks to David McRaney’s You Are Not So Smart podcast, and discussion of hipsterdom.
I was going to tell this story at The Moth tonight, but it refused to come together in a tidy way. I couldn’t come up with an ending… Life is, after all, just a bunch of middles, and we assign beginnings and endings to anecdotes so they can be satisfying stories. That said… In 1977 […]
Just reading an article in MIT Technology Review about Daniela Schiller, a neuroscientist studying memory malleability. Reminds me of Elzabeth Loftus, who got into a lot of hot water (including death threats!) by demonstrating experimentally that the concept of “repressed memory” is not fact-based, and how false memories can be created. [Of course, to a […]