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Saturday afternoon, July 25, was quite magical for me: all three beautiful talks were closely related to my interests and to my own work. Here is a brief personal description of the lectures, with links to the slides and papers, followed...
Early August is a hinge point in the calendar. In some ways, it's not as obvious a hinge as the autumnal equinox or the summer solstice; in fact, it's the time directly between those two hinges--we're as far away from the start of summer...
around golden hour
[The player-coach was a mainstay of the early NBA. But times change, and the association hasn’t had one in an eon for a variety of good reasons. One is that serving as a player-coach can be extremely awkward. “The impossible job” the...
Test #test
Drawing Hands (1948) by MC Escher. • New music: The World In Layers by mōshonsensu; The Rest Is My Ghost by Lawrence English; Rotostyles by Julien Ash & M.Nomized. • At Public Domain Review: “The Persian Mâr-Nâmeh or, The Book for Taking...
View from the cheap seats The King’s Theatre in Edinburgh has been closed for over four years but it re-opens this weekend after a monster refurb. I got to wander around it this afternoon and it looks fabulous. New bars, cafes,...
Certain consoles come along and brag about how powerful they are. "This new PlayStation will render water so realistically you'd swear you're swimming," or, "You can see every blade of grass in this new Xbox game," and so forth....
This is a short follow-up to my previous post. Last month, while researching Dinty Moore specifically and Bringing Up Father generally, I came across a phrase I hadn't heard before, "Jiggs Dinner." Like Dinty Moore, it was apparently...
Thanks to everyone who's contributed to the fundraiser so far. I'm not out of the woods yet, but you've made a big difference. As a donation incentive, anyone who contributes $5 or more will get a coupon code for all the paid bonus...
Sun-drenched shores, tailored wool swimsuits, and a newfound sense of freedom all came together to define one of the most stylish decades in beach history. The 1930s transformed swimming from a rare luxury into a beloved national...
Shelly Horton has given me permission to publish this retelling of Eddy Merckx's 1969 Tour de France, originally published in the email newsletter she produces with her husband Brett, 1K TO GO, using photos from their Horton Collection....
On Thursday, I left my role as Senior Director of Technology at ProPublica, where I led IT, Security, and Engineering. In September, I will begin my John S. Knight Journalism Fellowship at Stanford University. Which means that, during...
TL;DR: RAD Weather pulls forecasts from four services and shows you where they disagree instead of averaging the disagreement away. Free, with RAD Ultra at $1.99 a month, $19.99 a year, or $99.99 once, plus a MultiPass tier at $2.99...
TL;DR: RAD Weather pulls forecasts from four services and shows you where they disagree instead of averaging the disagreement away. Free, with RAD Ultra at $1.99 a month, $19.99 a year, or $99.99 once, plus a MultiPass tier at $2.99...