The Poet makes himself a seer by a long, gigantic and rational derangement of all the senses.
- Arthur Rimbaud, 1871
David Bowie, né Jones, was a unique artistic and cultural force who defied “normal”…
As my work has shifted more heavily into food and agriculture over the last few years, the sheer amount of information available for any given subtopic continues to amaze and overwhelm me. As I’ve been struggling to grok all the datums and the bytes, I found the XKCD article and recent mini…
The World Health Organization found in 2014 that 54% of the world’s population lived in cities and projected…
When we sometimes hear that “software is eating the world,” the specific implications can be difficult to describe before they occur and upset managers who are uncomfortable with change and resist adapting to new market conditions. In food, agriculture and…
While federal transparency policies have given us sprawling new government “open data” sites, stark disagreements about what information should be “public” have revealed concerning trends in both private industry and government to be…
Computational linguistics often depend on distributional semantics, the concept that texts with similar word counts (frequency distributions) are alike, an extension of Leibniz’s Law to language informally called the “bag of…
This month, I’m excited to have a piece in Supply Chain Management Review discussing mounting evidence that Fair Trade has little proven impact on poverty, and the companion piece by professors of supply chain management Robert…
Author and NPR Social Science Correspondent Shankur Vendantem has an interesting perspective on the cognitive neurological basis for “motivated reasoning.” This process the brain uses to filter and order information efficiently could also be driving less…