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Navigating Victoria’s Secret
May 14, 2014
An interesting fact about me: much as I enjoy touching boobs, I don’t enjoy touching bras; at least the ones that…
The Last Dance – and Why it Needs to Slow its Roll
May 7, 2014
Ah, summer. As it sits enticingly on the horizon, our nation’s future sits in stuffy high school classrooms and dreams…
Stop The Presses: How To Buy Back The Baltimore Sun
February 25, 2014
Featured photo by Chris Montgomery The Baltimore Sun and Baltimore City Paper have been slowly dying for years. The big…
Patriarchy’s Most Feared Athletes: Women Ice-Hockey Players
February 25, 2014
In lieu of the USA’s frustrating Olympic ice-hockey performances, once the disappointment set in, it was still impossible to overlook…
Existential Bummer :: Jason Silva
November 13, 2013
"Man is literally split in two: he has an awareness of his own splendid uniqueness in that he sticks out…
When You Walk Through The Garden
October 29, 2013
“Is it anything like ‘The Wire’?” Anyone living in Baltimore for a substantial amount of time who’s traveled outside the…
What To Delete: Pt. 2
November 30, 2011
In the digital world, space is pretty cheap these days. I can backup my laptop for 6 months for what…
What To Delete Pt. 1
November 16, 2011
What's hard is choosing what to keep, and what to throw out. Will I need this? Will I ever use…
Idea Asteroid
October 20, 2011
Imagine a big gnarly idea hurtling through space and on a collision course with your head. It's threatening you directly.…
Street Destination
October 13, 2011
So, Istanbul. Decades after the Ottoman Empire said goodbye to its last Sultan in 1922 the population of Istanbul was…
Aspiration Vacuum
October 5, 2011
Have we forgotten how to aspire? Have our problems, once merely sticky but now bordering on existential have scared us…
Ode to the Bazaar
September 21, 2011
Just off the main street in the part of Istanbul where you'll also find Hagia Sophia and the Blue Masque,…
IstanBaltimore
September 14, 2011
Leaving my world behind allows me to experience other cultures, and also helps me see my own. I'm in Istanbul…
Cyclist Outlaws
August 31, 2011
I'm abike commuter. I love it. But nearly everyday, I see my fellow cyclists do things that hurt their interests…
Talulah Derailed
August 17, 2011
It seems to me that would be pretty unusual to judge yourself as the one in 1,000 artists who will…
Treating Others
July 21, 2011
Despite that the data on the cost-benefit ratio for using vaccines to stall pandemics is overwhelmingly in favor of vaccines—those…
Downside Up
July 13, 2011
I don't know about ya'll but I think we're in the middle of a big change. It's as if for…
Education Rethunk
May 4, 2011
The first short film in a series that deconstructs "the education problem" in the US by looking at it through…
#3: culture, art and science
April 28, 2011
As an artist/educator, it seemed relevant to learn about how the human mind and brain process information and respond to…
Intuitive Insight: So What
April 20, 2011
Part 4—the final short film in this series about intuitive insight and the cultural impediments to becoming the innovation powerhouse…
