by David | Sep 16, 2013 | science!, travel
We all know that parallel lines never meet, and it’s convenient to think of the lines of longitude and timezones as parallel, but they really aren’t. The former because they’re inscribed on the (more or less) spherical Earth, and the latter because...
by David | Jun 1, 2012 | photo
During Somerville Open Studios a while back, I visited the studio of Bruce Myren in the Vernon Street Studios. Bruce is an artist and educator I’ve been following for a while and I was excited to see some new work, and there was plenty of it. Be sure to see the...
by David | Jan 9, 2011 | culture
It restores my faith in search engines when I get an interesting comment on a years-old blog post. Karen scolded me for allegedly mixing up Croatia and Yugoslavia in my June 2008 post about Grgic wines. I think Karen simply missed the tense of the story I was...
by David | Apr 23, 2010 | eating, science!, travel
I try not to be too much of a food snob but there are a few things that just sort of make me nervous for no good reason, and having sushi far from the open sea is one of them. This is bogus for any number of reasons, most notably that a great deal of all restaurant...
