Off to Cambridge (or rather, CAMBRIDGE !!! ZOMG)
I've hesitated to write anything about this, mainly because I haven't really believed my good fortune, but now that the paperwork is taken care of and we're on
On academic presentations and the future of conferences
Author and creative writing teacher Rachel Toor writes in the latest Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription required) about the problems of either dashing off talks the night before,
A few of my favorite things: What I enjoy about travel, biking, workshops, and cooking
In the last few days I've been doing a lot of stuff: biking, organizing a Memorial Day dinner, preparing for a week-long trip to the East Coast, thinking
What is it about working on planes?
I spent several hours on the plane working on the talk I'm giving at the philosophy of telecommunications convergence (I'm giving several others, but they're either completely informal
The experience of using Google docs and the future of collaboration
Today one of my colleagues at the Institute and I finished up a draft of a piece on the future of biomimicry. We've been working on it for
Journeyman again
Preface (1999) No one has born the weight of the decade's terrible academic job market more than young Ph.D.s. Caught between a culture that insists they cannot leave