Phoenix Rising
The backstory of Robert Kieft, founder of New City. Based, at least in part, on @etcetera ‘s Kieft’s City — an account of Kieft’s military…
Author: profmag
Why Do We Dream?
What are dreams and why do we have them? Dreams are nearly universal, but often bizarre. This makes us believe they must serve a purpose,…
Protections Against Arbitrary Imprisonment
In the What Happened to Jerry? storyline that Etcetera is working on, people in New City are disappearing and it seems the government has something…
Brains Are Not Computers and Can’t Think In Them
Ever since the creation of the computer, we’ve been thinking of our brains in terms of memory, retrieval, and processing. Renowned psychologist Robert Epstein points…
Women and Technology
Microsoft celebrated Women’s History Month (March) with a feature on how women innovators around the world are using technology to make things better. An ad…
Was Dr. Seuss Cancelled?
In the New City story line for SparkQuest, the government is a authoritarian regime that exercises strong censorship and repressive policies. This arose, in my…
Finding Chris Soderquist
We’ve been working on Systems Thinking lately (see this post and this one). If found a good not-too-technical explanation put out by the CDC, but…
The Systems Thinking Trinity
Two weeks ago, we watched “The Value of Systems Thinking” by consultant Chris Soderquist for the CDC, and I pointed out how you can view…
Hexagons Are The Bestagons: Graphene Edition
The other day @blackout introduced our family to “Hexagons Are The Bestigons”, a truly nerdy homage to an astounding polygon that is — as a…