Senator Bernie Sanders at the Cambridge Union Society
Senator Bernie Sanders visited the Cambridge Union Society at Cambridge University this past week. Here’s a link to his full talk: (I wish they could fix the white balance on...
Can you really read a book on the Apple Watch?
We have many options when it comes to ebook reading, and the Apple Watch might be the most surprising option of all — the 1.5 inch screen makes it quite...
Math and The Simpsons
I finally got a copy of Simon Singh’s The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets. You can also check out an excerpt from Singh’s book at Slate: “Homer’s Last Theorem” [update:...
“What If We Put DRM on Chairs?”
DRM CHAIR from Thibault Brevet on Vimeo. (DRM = Digital Rights Management) Chairs and ebooks don’t have a lot in common. But just what if they did? From Escapist Magazine:...
So — Who Organizes Books by Color?
I didn’t really know this is a thing that people did. I don’t love it, or really hate it. From Apartment Therapy (“In Defense of: Organizing Books by Color”). It...
Batman, Superman, Crime and Punishment and Literary Parody
Parody and literature is a favorite pet topic of mine. There’s something pleasurable about seeing familiar literature spun into amusingly unfamiliar forms. As Nabokov said — “Satire is a lesson,...
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I run the ThinkLab at the University of Cambridge, and research digital habits, productivity, and wellbeing.
