January 2012
1 post
The Devil and the Details →
Jan 2nd
December 2011
1 post
Dec 22nd
3,253 notes
November 2011
3 posts
Fubar in Helvetia →
Nov 22nd
Kyoto in Durban →
Click on cartoon for link to source. Filed under: Anthropocene, Climate Change, Global Politics
Nov 18th
It has been one of those days… →
Nov 17th
October 2011
3 posts
Good Morning World! →
Oct 21st
… not the Mandarin →
Oct 13th
5 tags
Oct 11th
191 notes
August 2011
2 posts
One Another →
Aug 20th
Hiatus or “Mein Kampf” →
Yesterday the ball started rolling again. The Fall school term started on Monday for the Bernese, and with it the community’s political life wakes up from the torpor of a not so hot summer….
Aug 18th
June 2011
4 posts
Undone →
Jun 21st
Back in September →
Jun 15th
Jun 5th
11,780 notes
To be continued →
Jun 3rd
May 2011
1 post
Daniel Suarez on the human brain at the FAZ →
The human brain evolved over hundreds of thousands of years to cope with its environment, and we can’t fundamentally change our ‘wiring’ overnight. However, in a rapidly evolving technological…
May 22nd
March 2011
2 posts
Mourning →
Mar 15th
W. W. Norton: What if David Foster Wallace wrote... →
muttinmall: markcoatney: wwnorton: David Foster Wallace for ¡Siesta Infinita! Predictably and irrevocably lost to the speed and complexity of contemporary lifestyles led by Individuals whose attention spans are most accurately measured at the atomic level is a sense of community, a conjoint gathering not just of ideas – currently distributed via internet as freely as unsolicited menus...
Mar 3rd
125 notes
February 2011
5 posts
Situation Room →
Feb 20th
folk theories for folks on a ship →
folk theories for folks on a ship the prezi. Raumshifferde was simply a great expedition. I love Hamburg, but more important the coffee was of superior quality. I unwittingly accepted…
Feb 16th
Feb 15th
No news… →
Feb 10th
We Are All Egyptians →
Feb 4th
December 2010
7 posts
Quick Snow →
Dec 31st
December… →
Dec 29th
The flat
All empty. Missed the simplicity. Elegance.
Dec 19th
Not the Grinch! →
Dec 18th
Daniel Sarewitz – Slate Magazine – Red, Blue and... →
Daniel Sarevitz ask a few interesting questions, and attempts some answers: [W]hy should it matter that there are so few Republican scientists? After all, it’s the scientific facts that matter, and…
Dec 10th
Reaction →
Already Sir Isaac Newton observed that for every action there is a reaction.
Dec 9th
Noam Chomsky on Democracy Now →
Just a couple of days ago, there was a report of an analysis of green technology production. It turns out China is in the lead, Germany is next, Spain is high up there, and the United States is one…
Dec 1st
November 2010
6 posts
«Der Samichlaus kommt aus der Südtürkei» – News... →
Nov 30th
An intellectual black hole →
Certain standard fallacies and counterfactuals are held by these commenters as irresistible ‘gotchas’ — any one of which makes the idea of human-induced global warming absurd (and further thought…
Nov 30th
Business Idea →
Nov 29th
News of Sorts →
Nov 21st
Building Bridges →
I like the way that Ahmed Zewail has answered the question of what it takes to get a Nobel Prize. In reading his essay published in Nature. It is worthy of a good read regardless of what role in…
Nov 19th
I am the actor →
Nov 5th
October 2010
1 post
Invisible →
Digging through paradigms. Filed under: Flotsam/Jetsam, Writers
Oct 11th
September 2010
2 posts
Fishy →
On twitter I follow change.org so that every once in a while an item catches my attention. What catches my attention usually depends on what is occupying my desk and mind at the time. Today I took…
Sep 14th
Field Trip →
IMG_4082, originally uploaded by trafal. Politics as usual. Filed under: About Politics, Public Life, Switzerland
Sep 4th
August 2010
9 posts
Gaga →
by Johnny Morgan Filed under: Art, London Tagged: London
Aug 24th
Play! Let’s play! →
Filed under: games, knowledge ownership
Aug 24th
Natto →
via Shoyu Japan Filed under: Roma
Aug 16th
The American →
It is Anton Corbijn‘s work that took me to see this flick. That, and Italy, and my ambiguous relationship to Nespresso capsules, are all good reasons to go see it. You know that the world has…
Aug 10th
Aug 7th
Schtrhess! →
via Tages Anzeiger (but also Berner Zeitung; both TA Media). Thanks to David for the tip. Context: On September 26 the voting citizenry in the city of Bern is going to be asked to…
Aug 6th
Ambition →
It is time to grow up for both of us. A few weeks ago we spent a couple of hours talking, sharing, and living. It was immense joy and all of a sudden I am faced with the implied promise that I made…
Aug 5th
1 note
Liberdade →
Ai que prazer Não cumprir um dever, Ter um livro para ler E não o fazer! Ler é maçada, Estudar é nada. O sol doira Sem literatura. O rio corre, bem ou mal, Sem edição original. E a brisa, essa,
Aug 4th
Fundamentally yours →
anything goes Filed under: Roma
Aug 3rd
July 2010
8 posts
Quantum leaves in fact and fiction →
When one tries to wrap one’s brain around quantum mechanics chances are that the distinctions between fact and fiction blur, and on most good days that which we think to be logic eludes us. Those…
Jul 29th
Obon →
. a midsummer night’s dream, originally uploaded by TommyOshima. It is a craving, a compulsive craving. It is waste. Do not think. Filed under: Japan
Jul 28th
Disambiguation →
Achilles: I proclaim victory! I believe! I believe in death. Tortoise: You are a rich bastard and a foul bitch! You elude all, at least half the time! Your mind is a dark labyrinth full of…
Jul 23rd