AC Grayling on the decline of academic contemplation
It's now rather old, but I wanted to note this piece by philosopher AC Grayling about the ways assessments are forcing universities to focus on measurable productivity
Just don’t dip your iPhone in the tom ka gai
MG Siegler had a short piece a couple months ago about cellphones at the dinner table that argues that it's not antisocial if 1) everyone is doing it,
Contemplative art
I was in Washington DC last week, and managed to take in the Nam June Paik exhibit at the National Gallery. It was an unexpected lesson in technology
Contemplative art at the Smithsonian
Last week I was in Washington DC, at a workshop on the future of counterinsurgency and irregular warfare. Not the most obvious moment to encounter works that provide
Qantified self
A brief post about self-tracking and the quantified self movement on my Future 2 blog.
A critique of minimalist word processors
While looking for a replacement for Ecto (which I've used for years, but which has now become unacceptably unstable), I stumbled upon this attack on WriteRoom and the
My son at the Science Museum
Just came across this picture from their trip to England in April. at the science museum, via flickr
“Maybe I’ll be smarter when I have more distractions”
This is great: click for the full size version Personally I find an open workspace great for some kinds of work, but I'm very much the type who
Bad argument? Dress it up with neuroscience!
Okay, last post before I go back to work. Following up on the brain vs. mind post, here's Ben Goldacre talking about an interesting 2008 article measuring how
The Titanic as symbol
Edward Tenner has a piece in The Atlantic about the Titanic's continued importance in Ireland as "an icon of the vanished glories of Belfast shipbuilding at its peak."