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but man this place is weird. I’m learning I have preconceptions, expectations, and prejudices about certain things that just don’t work out here. I’m having to come up with an entirely new model for people.

I think that’s the most grandiose title I’ve ever used. Have you watched Carl Sagan’s Cosmos? I highly recommend it for anyone. It’s a little dated, though the version I watched via Netflix had updates at the end of each episode. For a good overview of the universe as it is understood, and how science [...]

Cultural biases are fascinating to me. The most fascinating thing is that what you think of as a cultural bias really isn’t that important (say, preference for rice versus bread), it’s the ones you have no way of being aware of. Let me show you something. This image grabbed from Boston.com’s The Big Picture showing [...]

“My fears were confirmed when I began trying to gather local economic development literature to use as a recruiting tool. The deficits which so dog our region are sometimes heralded by this literature as assets. For example, some boosters trumpet our…”

The Atlantic: What ‘Batman’ Taught Me About Being a Good Dad: And no, it isn’t about revenge justice.

Link: Frankenstein’s Monster, Technological Artifact: Is it the device that’s important or the things that allowed the device to exist that are important? What you think of as “technology” is probably wrong.
It’s not the smart phone that is the…

Link: I Write Like: According to this site I write like Cory Doctorow most of the time on my blog… the irony being that I found the site via BoingBoing. That either means I’ve assimilated the blogger style, or I have no style.* Probably the latter…