Weekend 179.0
(1) China’s train wreck (2) The Disappearing Dollar (3) Is “Conservative Environmentalist” an Oxymoron?
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Weekend 178.0
(1) Sic Transit Gloria: A Bus Museum Fails to Gain Traction (Wall Street Journal) (1a) IBM App Predicts How Your Commute Will Go (Wired) (2) Is ‘Nudging’ Really Enough? (Wall Continue Reading →
Weekend 177.1
How to Get a Real Education: Forget art history and calculus. Most students need to learn how to run a business, says Scott Adams. (WSJ) Meanwhile, some of my peers Continue Reading →
Weekend 177.0
(1) Best feet forward: Fairfield forum for cyclists, walkers (Fairifeld Citizen) (2) The Sleepless Elite: Why Some People Can Run on Little Sleep and Get So Much Done (Wall Street Continue Reading →
Weekend 176.0 (the Bilbao Effect)
(1) Found – The Comics Of Chris Ware: Drawing Is A Way Of Thinking I just finished Makeshift Metropolis by Witold Rybczynski so the timing of this “find” is serendipitous. Continue Reading →
Weekend 175.2
“Decaying and dilapidated architecture resonates as loss, as evidence of the irreversible passage of time, yet architectural ruins emanate past grandeur.” — Daniel Worden, On Modernism’s Ruins: The Architecture of Continue Reading →
Weekend 175.1
A photograph to complement my last post. And how about some complementary lyrics? “They made a statue of us And it put it on a mountain top Now tourists come Continue Reading →
Weekend 175.0
“One realizes oneself only one piece at a time.” — Marcel Proust, The Fugitive (1) Christo Without Jeanne-Claude – Where monuments pretend to endure, their work suggests the fleeting nature Continue Reading →
Weekend 174.0
I was finally able to ride this morning. It was blue and crispy and the five boroughs approach. I also have a new route this season which takes me away Continue Reading →
Weekend 173.0
(1) In My Home Office: Maira Kalman (WSJ) – My workspace is defined by books, ephemera, quiet and light. (2) Microchips Are Old Hat. Can Tweets Be Far Behind? (WSJ) Continue Reading →