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Italian tailoring on the streets of Delhi misses something fundamental: beauty has always been tied to context. Good style isn’t collecting beautiful clothes — it’s placing them coherently.
Almost twenty five years ago, a few days after 9/11, I went to a restaurant serving food from Afghanistan. At the time, I still lived in Boston, from which two of the planes had departed that were used in the terrorist attacks. For a...
Walk around Victoria park this afternoon. Warm and quite sunny. Lots of small damselflies out on the pond.
After her death in 1935, Einstein wrote that Emmy Noether (left) was "the most significant creative mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher education of women began." This delightful animated short tells the story of a...
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After teaching high school social studies for fourteen years, I wanted to be an urban superintendent. To do that, I had to get a doctorate. Accepted at Stanford University as a middle-aged graduate student, I arrived in 1972 with family...
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About as efficient as playing DOOM in a favicon.
Two tavernas, two kafeneios, Plato's academy, a carnival of fiscal excess, sunshine, and a free tortoise. Greece!
× Part of degoogling my life meant dropping the YouTube app. The only thing I actually used it for was the subscription feed: what the 10 to 15 channels I follow have posted, newest first. No comments, no recommendations, no Shorts. So I...