http://ponderingmind.org/main What happens when we think as we go along? Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:57:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I woke up this morning as I have most every morning that I have lived in the US, listening to Carl Kasell’s voice and the morning news.  I was sad to hear, about halfway through the hour’s news, that Carl Kasell is actually retiring from the morning news - a ... http://ponderingmind.org/main/2009/11/24/carl-kasell-leaving-npr/ The most curious thing happened to me while buying a book, Seeing by Jose Saramago, at Bridge Street Books in Georgetown this evening. Seeing, the dust cover explains, is about an election in the capital, where more than 70 percent of the final votes cast are actually blank. ... http://ponderingmind.org/main/2009/11/03/seeing/ Wired takes a look back in history today, all the way back to the first attempts to put newspapers online. While I get most of my news online these days, I still enjoy the Sunday paper to lounge with. And there is just something satisfying of the smack ... http://ponderingmind.org/main/2009/09/24/who-would-have-thought-wed-read-the-paper-online/ Yes, it’s been a while since I posted anything. Yes there are lots of things to say. But for now, I give you some builders in tutus. http://ponderingmind.org/main/2009/09/18/builders-in-tutus/ Oxford city centre has been overtaken by construction in the last few weeks. It’s very annoying. I finally decided to figure out what is going on, and was a little startled to find that, come 2012, most of the centre of Oxford will be pedestrianised! The current work on ... http://ponderingmind.org/main/2009/07/13/oxford-is-going-pedestrian/ My sister Melissa and her husband Stuart gave me an iPod when I was about to leave for Oxford.  How fitting, then, that a mere few weeks before I leave these soggy isles, Ye Olde iPod should bite the dust. Being an inquisitive kind of guy, I of course decided to ... http://ponderingmind.org/main/2009/06/11/186/ I saw a bunch of these running around Paris last weekend as I sat at cafes revising my thesis (no joke, that’s really what I did while in Paris). I immediately took to them because of I saw their anomalous status within the usual two-wheeled/four-wheeled world of transport. Since ... http://ponderingmind.org/main/2009/05/27/motorised-tricycles-a-monster-in-transport-classification/ I’ve been watching the evolution of ’swine flu craze’ with an increasing amount of interest. There is much talk from various media outlets about it being a global pandemic, but with some voices of reason chiming in, such as the New York Times Lawrence K Altman. The world ... http://ponderingmind.org/main/2009/04/28/my-comments-on-the-swine-flu-craze/ It’s not everyday that you see a piece of technology that really changes the way you think about, well, technology. The work shown here by Festo is absolutely amazing. The materials—and applications of those materials—they are developing boggle my mind at the moment. http://ponderingmind.org/main/2009/04/23/180/ It’s official!  I am on my way to Harvard University to take up a Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Autumn after I finish my thesis.  Read all about it in my Journal entry. http://ponderingmind.org/main/2009/04/14/heading-to-harvard/