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…
Continue Reading L’Shanah Tovah Tomorrow begins the New Year so I’ll be posting my wishes today. As a variation on the sweetness of and I’ll offer this wish…
Continue Reading Castelleto Miramare His last words were, “I forgive everyone, and I ask everyone to forgive me.” Know who I am talking about? Archduke Ferdinand…
Continue Reading Polder Holland “Without cows the Dutch cultural landscape is drowsily boring.” The cultural landscape? Or the landscape per se? I mulled over this sentence found…
Continue Reading Heavy Metal “I’m interested in cultural phenomena that symbolize oddness and excess. Currently I’m looking at competitive table-setting competitions, home decorating in the…
Continue Reading Mihrab “My art focusses on the power of women – to remind myself I have power.” I heard this sentence in an interview with…
