I’ve given three public talks in the last six months. What really strikes me is how different these talks were, in content, structure, and intent. The first talk was at Sprout, during one of their spaghetti dinners, which are festive occasions thrown monthly and organized around a particular theme. This month’s theme was brains: my [...]
The last two weeks my attention has been pretty well captured by Parts & Crafts, the summer camp my housemates run. They invited me to come teach this past session, which was themed ‘Imaginary Worlds’. We made card games, choose your own adventure books, chocolate aliens, telegraphs – but by far everyone’s favorite activity was [...]
The last couple of days have been FULL of cake. My friends’ theater company turned five this summer, and they requested a cake from me to have at their celebration. They’re called Flat Earth Theater, so the design for the cake was obvious: I put so much thought and effort into figuring out the decorations [...]
Yesterday my friend Nagle and I ran an activity at Bring Your Grandmother To Math at the MIT Museum (a part of the Cambridge Science Festival). A few days earlier, we’d spent an afternoon reading through Vi Hart‘s blog for inspiration. We looked at the Mobius strip music box, Penny sierpinski triangles, and followed a [...]
I spent pretty much all my free time last week studying for the psychology GRE subject test, and I have to say that I resent how much I now know about Freud. It’s not that I think studying the history of a discipline is pointless – far from it. But the history of psychology that [...]
