I brought up Alone Together last night and recalled how skeptical I was about the emotional satisfaction that robots might provide, so I was struck by the by Louise Aronson's argument for robotic caregivers in The New York Times today [http://nyti.ms/1rqMS6A] > I can, and…
It must be a day to challenge my assumptions. Holly Brubach offered a jarring, but valid, observation about health care at The New York Times [http://nyti.ms/1rnKrBO] > Edward T. Hall, the cultural anthropologist who advised members of the State Department in the ’50s, wrote that you can…
Listening to a radio broadcast of Eugene Onegin this afternoon prompts me to copy this old post [http://mikeschultz.posthaven.com/habit-in-praise-of-subtitles]— At the HD broadcast of Eugene Onegin, subtitles have given me more insight into the characters and action than I've ever had before. I was struck…
> “Email is a constant: Why I turned off email notifications” by @mg [https://twitter.com/mg] https://t.co/VW1hgEHpxJ — Medium (@Medium) July 18, 2014 [https://twitter.com/Medium/statuses/490257961042718720]…
This morning I listened to Bob Edwards interview Giles Milton abour his new book, Russian Roulette: A Deadly Game: How British Spies Thwarted Lenin's Global Plot. Milton is quite a storyteller and he did a great job spinning tales of the exploits of Mansfield Cumming and Sidney Reilly.…
At the Paris Review Sadie Stein recalls the postcards she sent as a teenager and writes [http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2014/07/17/thinking-of-you/] > Now, as a grownup on vacation, I’m sitting here with a pile of postcards in front of me, wondering what to do about…
After discussing Anna Karenina, War and Peace, Madame Bovary, and Half of a Yellow Sun, Smith writes [http://www.oprah.com/oprahsbookclub/Author-Zadie-Smith-What-to-Read-This-Summer?utm_campaign=SharedPost&utm_medium=Email&utm_source=TumblriOS] > The epic inaction of our summer holidays is perhaps what makes them suitable for the…
Of herself in today's New York Times [http://nyti.ms/1r7JjC9] Paola Antonelli says > Not a neat freak > I am stunned by very neat desks. It always amazes me that people can be that neat. I admire it, but I could never do it.…