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June 2014

June 20, 2014

Suspicious Hermits, Gruesome Creativity, and Just Enough E Coli

--- 1 --- There's a bit of luck in my starting this week's quick takes...

June 13, 2014

Misguided Maps, Unbalanced Games, and Deadly Dresses

--- 1 --- When my mother read yesterday's post on peer mediation and restorative justice,...

June 06, 2014

Empathy, Vitalism, Alzheimer’s, Physical Paradoxes and other things found in dictionaries

--- 1 --- When I was little, one of my favorite things to read was...

May 2014

May 30, 2014

7QT: Cats that are not on fire, and more spiders than you’d expect

--- 1 --- My facebook friends are the kind of people who are patient with...

May 23, 2014

7 Quick Takes (5/23/14)

--- 1 --- I'm delighted by how many of you wrote in to tell me that...

May 16, 2014

7 Quick Takes (5/16/14)

--- 1 --- Ok, it turns out there have been so many cool sources of...

May 09, 2014

7 Quick Takes (5/9/14)

--- 1 --- Here's the most fun you'll have since slime molds mapped your public...

May 02, 2014

7 Quick Takes (5/2/14)

--- 1 --- I'm on tenterhooks waiting to get my copy of Andre the Giant:...

April 2014

April 25, 2014

7 Quick Takes (4/25/14)

--- 1 --- Everyone's still talking about the data journalism sites Vox, FiveThirtyEight, and the...

April 11, 2014

7 Quick Takes (4/11/14)

--- 1 --- This week, the theme for the links is experimentation and innovation. First...

April 04, 2014

7 Quick Takes (4/4/14)

--- 1 --- Scott of Slate Star Codex posted a short story this week which...

March 2014

March 28, 2014

7 Quick Takes (3/28/14)

--- 1 --- I keep being pleased by the things I read at Nautilus. Most recently,...

March 21, 2014

7 Quick Takes (7/21/14)

--- 1 --- Turns out I have enough "clever engineering" links for that to be...

March 14, 2014

7 Quick Takes (3/14/14)

--- 1 --- Happy Pi Day! Let's celebrate with Vi Hart, Shakespeare, and Borges: ---...

March 07, 2014

7 Quick Takes (3/7/14)

--- 1 --- The most delightful thing I read this week is probably this post...

February 2014

February 28, 2014

7 Quick Takes (2/28/14)

--- 1 --- I enjoyed the heck out of this collection of famous first lines...

February 21, 2014

7 Book Questions

--- 1 --- In lieu of a normal Quick Takes, I'm going to glom onto...

February 14, 2014

7 Quick Takes (2/14/14)

--- 1 --- The coffee shop near my office puts up prompts on their blackboard...

February 07, 2014

7 Quick Takes

--- 1 --- This week, I had the pleasure of going to a talk at...

January 2014

January 31, 2014

7 Quick Takes (1/31/14)

--- 1 --- This week's theme, beautiful, beautifully made things. And we're starting with a...

January 24, 2014

7 Quick Takes (1/24/14)

--- 1 --- This weeks links are all about love and storytelling (as if there's...

January 17, 2014

7 Quick Takes (1/17/14)

--- 1 --- This week's theme is made things and the delight that people take...

January 10, 2014

7 Quick Takes (1/10/14)

--- 1 --- The theme for this week is distortions or odd perspectives on space...

January 03, 2014

7 Quick Takes (1/3/14)

--- 1 --- First, just a reminder that today I'm reading the first meditation in...

December 2013

December 27, 2013

6 Quick Dragons

--- 1 --- I had a lot of fun making my Christmas present for my...

December 20, 2013

7 Quick Takes (12/20/13)

--- 1 --- Let's start the Quick Takes with a link about beginnings. Keen envisions...

December 13, 2013

7 Quick Takes (12/13/13)

--- 1 --- The first time I ran into Google Hangout's facial recognition feature, I...

December 06, 2013

Seven Books of 2013

As the year winds to a close, and you may be starting to wonder what...

November 2013

November 22, 2013

7 Quick Takes (11/22/13)

--- 1 --- I recently picked up Leigh Bardugo's two novels Shadow and Bone and Siege...

November 15, 2013

7 Quick Takes (11/15/13)

--- 1 --- I can't decide if I want to roll my eyes at the...