Old friend and former WGBH-mate Chris Lydon, now the creative intelligence behind one of the web’s really exciting attempts to create global conversation, Open Source, came by a couple of weeks… more →
The Inverse Square BlogTom wrote 3 months ago: Old friend and former WGBH-mate Chris Lydon, now the creative intelligence behind one of the web … more →
Tom wrote 4 months ago: One of the great pleasures of the writing life is the stuff you learn. There is the material that y … more →
Tom wrote 4 months ago: Nothing is as satisfying as the praise of one’s colleagues — especially the really good … more →
Tom wrote 5 months ago: (Editor’s note: Go here for the last entry in this diary, and search “diary” in t … more →
verticalclimax wrote 5 months ago: “Nu poți să primești totul fără să dai nimic înapoi …” este exact replica prin car … more →
Tom wrote 5 months ago: Go to the Nature Publishing Group Island in Second Life where, at 10 Pacific Time, 1 Eastern Time, I … more →
Tom wrote 6 months ago: Just a little story here. Last post I talked about getting blurbs from busy and very accomplished f … more →
Tom wrote 6 months ago: Readers of this blog may have noticed that I recently published a book (ya’ think? –ed.) … more →
Tom wrote 7 months ago: A few days ago I had happy occasion to tout the first review of my upcoming Newton and the Counterfe … more →
Tom wrote 8 months ago: As readers of this blog no doubt know too well by this point, I’m on the verge of publishing a … more →
Tom wrote 8 months ago: Nick Montfort, my prolific colleague in the Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies at MIT, is pre … more →
Tom wrote 10 months ago: Cross posted at So Simple A Beginning. Up to now, we’ve been talking around the edges of what Darwin … more →
Tom wrote 1 year ago: Update: See correction below.** (Cross-posted at Cosmic Variance.) Let me just admit up front that … more →
Tom wrote 1 year ago: Apologies to all for the hiatus in this blog feature. The reason, beyond the normal clutter of late … more →
Tom wrote 1 year ago: We are in a mess. How bad is it? I don’t know — but when the Fed et al. race to make sur … more →
Tom wrote 1 year ago: March 22, 1699 offered Londoners one of their favorite entertainments: execution day, the carnival h … more →
Tom wrote 1 year ago: On March 3, 1703, a very short giant died, and a greater one of average height may well have laughed … more →
Tom wrote 1 year ago: Sir Isaac Newton lived a prodigiously long life for his day — not bad for ours either. He died … more →
Tom wrote 1 year ago: …because if modern science has a birthday, this could be it. (Think of February 8 as the analo … more →