Finding adaptive technologies at the heart of the human soul

“At the moment when human beings cut themselves off from the consciousness of themselves as nature, all purposes for which they keep themselves alive — social progress, the heightening of material and intellectual forces…

Ardano on aesthetics & natural beauty

Just how bound up natural beauty is with art beauty is confirmed by the experience of the…

The music of the MRI

For the first half

The uncanny valley

I have looked in a mirror and wondered who that is. I’ve caught a glimpse of a mannequin as I’ve turned a corner on a dark…

What the block felt like

I am not a writer.

I am not good enough to be a writer.

I don’t have what it takes to be a writer.

I want to be a writer.

A theme song for turning 50…

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The Enumerator

Some months later, after going on with the Census Bureau full-time, Adelaide will be sitting in a vast room in Manhattan with a hundred other women, working through the census sheets from other districts in New York City, calculating the sums of each page and placing the sheets in great binders that…