Continue Reading Unexpected Sounds “On second thought, maybe I should go to the concert. Even if it is church music played in a church. Or maybe…
Continue Reading Uncommon Sightings The entry stamp on my hand should have already given it away: it came in the form of a small red dachshund….
Continue Reading Fall Prep Be warned: today’s blog will read like the back of a cereal box, or the kind of placemat factoids meant to keep…
Continue Reading Late September in the Grande Ronde Valley 260 miles east of Portland lies La Grande, a small town of 13.000 or so people nestled in the Grand Ronde valley,…
Continue Reading Sunflowers Sunflower fields are a gift of fall – particularly for those of us who like to photograph. The colors, the strong forms,…
Continue Reading Autumn There is a decided smell of fall in the air when walking early in the morning, hints of russet and smidgens of…
Continue Reading Leveling This week’s topics of luck, randomness and bias have all been discussed in the context of inequality. I tried to point out…
Continue Reading Coincidence? Here is an interesting speech on luck by a Harvard luminary for a commencement some years back. http://www.harvard.edu/president/2012-baccalaureate-service-updraft-inexplicable-luck What about those who happen to…
Continue Reading Randomness This is an anatomically correct replica of the brain. It was knitted across a full year by psychiatrist Dr. Karen Norbert of the…
Continue Reading Luck Perhaps it is no accident that we found ourselves discussing the issue of luck at a place that serves fortune cookies. Surrounded…
