Unqualified Offerings

By Thoreau
The topic of America’s car culture has come up a lot at The Art of the Possible. I share some of their concerns, so I hope I don’t come across as trivializing it when I link to this oldie but goodie article on attempts to move past car culture in some small way: [...]

Or made to run things. Daniel Davies argues that there is indeed "a general skill called management." To his two defining characteristics I’d probably add an openness to learning. Decisiveness in a manager is a virtue, yes. Nobody wants to work for the guy who tells you to hurry up and do A today, then [...]

I don’t just blog about Jeremiah Wright at the Art of the Possible, I blog about the day’s favorite Jeremiah Wright conspiracy theory. I think we can all agree this makes me part of the problem. (What problem? See Chapter Three of Heads in the Sand, coming to the review section of a national magazine [...]

By Thoreau
One of my favorite blogs, Biocurious (sorry, not that kind of blog) explains why blood clotting is one of the most fascinating things in science.
I like their post because I got into biophysics after reading a famous paper on blood vessel networks. There’s just something about the cardiovascular system that makes for fascinating [...]

By Thoreau
Poor Barack Obama.  He’s between a rock and at least 2 hard places when it comes to religion.  For a while we were treated to right wing whispers about how his religious Achilles Heel would be found in an Indonesian mosque.  Then his Christian minister was a liability.  Then he found himself in trouble [...]