The miracle of mundane
I stumbled upon a nice article from a buddhist about how folks who work hard at finding the extraordinary in the exceptional are looking in the wrong place: the...
Category: Religion
Commentary on Synthetic Biology: Either. Or.
Either "Scientists should NOT be allowed to create artificial life" Or "Scientists SHOULD be allowed to create artificial life" Is this real...
Culture as Augmented Reality?
I was listening to Wade Davis' Long Now talk about the wisdom of ancient cultures. Like all Long Now talks, it got me thinking. One thing that Wade said th...
Does paying off the creditors undermine social trust?
Via a few people I went and read Margaret Atwood’s Op-Ed in the NYT (link below) about debt and its role in society. Nice read. For me the most interestin...
Are Kosovars Albanians or Serbians?
I grew up thinking that nations should be the scale at which people are governed. I could not understand why Israel didn’t just make all the Palestinians ...
A WiFi mesh network for the Haj
There is something absolutely exotic about this set-up. Maybe it’s the medieval setting, maybe it’s the history of the Hajj, or maybe it’s bec...
From the Boston Globe comes a great essay on colleges ignoring life’s bigger questions
The Boston Globe has this great essay, by Yale Professor Anthony Kronman, about the teaching of the meaning of life in US colleges and universities. It’s ...