- Jun 18, 2017
- 5 min
DIMENSION FOUR
I don't like to think of time in the conventional manner. I once read a definition of time as, “a measure of change”. I always liked...
- Jan 10, 2017
- 5 min
QUESTIONING QUESTIONED QUESTIONS
I've been mildly criticized of “never asking questions” of other people. This has been brought up several times over the last few years...
- Mar 5, 2014
- 1 min
LESSONS ON PERCEPTION
Ms. Chan, I’m writing to you to let you know that many in our class had a problem with one of the slides that was shown on Tuesday. The...
- Mar 27, 2013
- 6 min
LOST IN ENCODING
I love books but hate reading. Growing up I struggled to read and always found it dreadfully boring. Not much has changed since then....
- Jan 24, 2013
- 7 min
VISUALIZATION
So there’s this thing: this nagging confusion I have that has been with me for as long as I can recall. The first time this confusion...
- Aug 16, 2012
- 2 min
OPTIMISM vs POSITIVITY
People sometimes ask if I think of myself as an optimistic person or as a pessimistic one. To be honest, I don’t think of myself either...
- Oct 12, 2011
- 5 min
THE WHOLE CANOEIST
“Body of missing canoeist recovered”, the newspaper headline reads. That can't possibly be what is meant, can it? They didn't find the...
- Apr 9, 2010
- 8 min
PRESCRIPTIONS
What I love the most about the Ten Commandments is that those stone tablets, we are told, were the only time God (G-d, Elohim, Yahweh,...
- Nov 5, 2009
- 7 min
THERE ARE TWO OF ME AND ONE OF THEM IS YOU
(Landa went to sleep early, the same way she did every night. She awakes in a hospital room.) Nope. [twelve minute pause] Nope. [eight...
- Jun 2, 2009
- 65 min
WHAT MORE COULD ONE WANT?
It was Wednesday February 7th, 2001, when Munro and I landed in Singapore. We arrived just after midnight, after more than nineteen hours...