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Exploratorium
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3 comments on ExploratoriumNow with photos! I’ve been to a lot of science musuems. Off the top of my head, I’ve visited major museums in London, Glasgow, DC, Seattle, Philadelphia, San Diego, Amsterdam and Sydney – and a host of smaller places besides. As I’ve written before, I don’t go with the intention of actually learning anything; the…
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San Francisco
Some San Francisco thoughts: Despite being a fairly small city, it’s very difficult to get around. We used a car for most of the time, but this only worked because we had a person who was happy driving us around all the time. As for public transport, it was initially very confusing. Here were some…
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Star formation
Another long-haul flight, another blog post. After I’ve exhausted the in-flight movies, this month’s issues of Scientific American and the New Yorker, listened to one and a half episodes of In Our Time, and even done some work, I’ve had to fall back to the option of last resort – writing a post for this…
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Cars
In the face of lukewarm reviews, I went to see Cars tonight – you tend to lower the bar on the movies you’ll watch when you live within a couple of minutes walk from a cinema. I’d been ambivalent about Cars ever since it’d been announced, because it didn’t seem to have the potential for…
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Mind Candy Wants You!
I’ve been at Mind Candy, developing Perplex City full time, for almost two years now. Sometimes I feel like I’m in a Bruce Sterling novel, jumping from neuroscience to a job which didn’t exist five years ago and is still difficult to explain to people. It’s obviously been a fun, if hectic, time, and it’s…
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San Francisco
Part of the reason I’ve disappeared for over a month is because I’ve been completely immersed in organising the upcoming San Francisco live event for Perplex City. Let’s just say that it’s a step up from what we’ve done in the past, and it’s really demanding a lot of my time. Anyway, it means that…
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Anti-Addiction pill
An Anti-Addiction Pill? – a clear and well-written article from the New York Times on new methods to treat addiction. Quite a nice way for me to catch up on recent developments in the field.
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GameSetWhat?
Henry Jenkins, Director of the Comparative Media Studies Program at MIT and researcher into videogames talked about alternate reality games, among other things, in a recent interview. I quite like when Jenkins has to say most of the time, but I found his comments on ARGs to be bafflingd. It’s perfectly true to say that…
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The Hugo Nominees
<a title="The Hugo Nominees, 2006″ href=”http://explorers.whyte.com/sf/Hugo2006.htm”>The Hugo Nominees, 2006 – a comprehensive guide to all the stories nominated for this year’s SF Hugo Award. If you scroll down, you can view many of the stories for free simply by clicking on them – god bless the internet!
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