Asking the right question is much more important than finding the solution. – Brian Arthur Our professional worlds are increasingly silo-ed, and so if you are not a scientist yourself the odds are high that you don’t get to spend much time with scientists. This is one reason for my longstanding affiliation […]
I’ve been spending time with Robin Wall Kimmerer and Jaron Lanier this weekend – with their books, I mean, not the people (though really maybe that is a meaningless distinction). Lanier writes with the soul of a poet about the glorious potential of technology, and how it differs from our current deployments. Kimmerer writes about […]
What do you see? If you’re a bee, you mostly see black and white. So what’s the point of all those colorful flowers? Recent research confirms that bees follow ultraviolet patterns on flowers. The bright yellows and reds don’t matter so much, but the tiny brown markings near the center can glow like neon to […]