It's Gerhard's Hat Day

It's Gerhard's Hat Day

I got a private message from Gerhard Adam which went "I'm getting used to being called a moron, etc. but why do they have to pick on the cowboy hat?" Why indeed?  Hats used to be cool but they…
No More "Yeah, But": A Failure to be Accountable

No More "Yeah, But": A Failure to be Accountable

I hear "yeah, but" all day long. I hear it from students at school. I hear it from my children. I read it and see it all over the internet; from autism-land to politics, we have become a nation of…
Science 2.0 at Being Human

Science 2.0 at Being Human

The Being Human conference was held yesterday, March 24th, at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco. Part of its description is " insights from science and philosophy shed new light on the…
The Move I Did Not Find

The Move I Did Not Find

There is nothing like computer-assisted post-mortem analysis of your chess games to get you back to reality about the potential of your brain: the computer sees so much more than you do, and so much…
When Children Grieve

When Children Grieve

We grieve in our own ways and in our own time. Some of us push the losses into the dusty recesses of our mind and refuse to go there. Some of us cannot and remain in the immediacy of the loss,…
An Ode To Venus

An Ode To Venus

"To her who appears in the sky    to her who appears in the skyI want to address my greeting    to the hierodule who appears in the skyI want to address my greeting…