2013-10-07 20:43
I walked in slightly late for a “Cosmic/Neuronal Slapdown” Saturday at the New York Academy of Medicine. I had never heard of such a thing, but this was an event sponsored by my… Read More
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Science, business, the arts and philosophy converge in this blog by Entrepreneur and Professor Matthew Putman.
2013-09-01 18:04
Finding cohesion and even subject when creating a recording or a work of music has a long tradition. As someone who improvises, there are times when finding meaning before a session or perfo… Read More
2013-07-09 12:03
I was walking from Pioneer Works in Red Hook to my apartment in nearby Cobble Hill talking with the fashion designer turned futurist developer Mari Kussman on a very hot Friday. Though roast… Read More
2013-04-29 11:35
I knew only the most basic business strategy of Tech Pro. This was a company that my parens started in 1983 that much later I owned with them and my cousin. The reason I knew so little was t… Read More
2013-04-11 12:42
I have struggled with ways to describe the rewards and frustrations of having a technology company located in a small town in Ohio. I have written about my home town of Akron, which was once… Read More
2013-02-25 02:36
There is a famous Vulcan puzzle that has a purpose described by Voyager Lieutenant Tuvok as restoring the "structure of harmony". This game is used for the aim of going beyond Zen style… Read More
2013-01-15 16:42
I walked into the Poets House in Battery Park for the first time in December, and realized that I wanted to spend more time there. At first glance I thought that Poets House was beauti… Read More
2013-01-07 01:59
I lived just a few blocks away from the Victor Hugo’s home on Place des Vosges in Paris, which is now a public museum. If you haven’t been to Place des Vosges you are missing out… Read More
2012-12-12 16:44
Crammed into this past week I was lucky enough to be in several situations that had me contemplating the greatest fragility and complexity of life from a variety of viewpoints. The first was… Read More
2012-11-29 20:42
My new TV arrived yesterday. Like most modern Americans the arrival of a new TV for me is an exciting moment. The last one, while only 4 years old and having an LCD display, seems like a rel… Read More
2012-10-16 19:40
Two weeks ago my daughter and I went to the World Maker Faire in Queens New York, for what was a great day of inventors showing cool new products of “stuff”. “Stuff”… Read More
2012-09-20 14:07
In 1862 the artist Paul Cezanne sat on the stairs of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris in confusion and despair as he read the results of his entrance exam. This man, who many artists and ar… Read More
2012-09-17 21:24
This is a blog which was published last year for the Singularity Summit. Since the Summit is over, I decided to post it here for anyone interested who did not read it before.This is a guest… Read More
2012-08-24 11:09
(disclaimer. This blog was typed from Germany on a German keyboard. I am sorry for any errors)I remember the first time that I was asked where I was from and got confused. It was 2004 a… Read More
2012-08-14 22:33
I was waiting in the school yard for my daughter last year when I asked a friend and fellow father what he was working on. He told me in confidence that he was ghost writing a book. I asked… Read More
2012-08-10 06:37
Several years ago we were looking for a school for our daughter in New York. For any of you that don’t live in New York I don’t mean to belittle your choices, but to be honest I… Read More
2012-08-07 21:19
This morning my daughter asked me to play with her, which of course I love. What she wanted to do though seemed completely boring and uncreative to me, but due to my traveling and in general… Read More
2012-08-04 13:00
Dan Le Roy wrote a book recently chronicling the making of the Beastie Boys’ Album “Paul’s Boutique” in 1989, which I just read. The Beastie Boys’ are not my fa… Read More
2012-08-03 08:18
Many years ago a mentor and friend told me something long before I had children. She was already a grandmother. She told me that unconditional love is largely an illusion. She stressed that… Read More
2012-07-31 13:26
Oscar Wilde said “ No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.” Science writers are now artists rather than journalists… Read More
2012-07-26 10:23
I left a funeral for my dear friend Aaron Nero, and then boarded a plane for France, where my family is vacationing. I had worked and traveled hard for weeks, and in the midst of this exhaus… Read More
2012-07-04 09:13
The talk I gave yesterday at the MPA Nanotech conference had plenty of normal attributes to criticize and then even some more. Mainly I was speaking about regenerative medicine, which is som… Read More
2012-07-03 19:34
For father’s day my seven year old gave me a great gift, which is the gift to explore within the borders of her creation. That sounds a bit grand for what it was, which was ten pieces… Read More
2012-06-07 13:38
I have been listening to a lot of NPR over the last few days since I have been driving so much to visit customers. I should be forced to do this more often (as I am sure I will be), as I get… Read More
2012-06-03 01:58
This week has been the 5th annual World Science Festival, and one way to look at 5 years of science festivals is to look at what has changed in science in the last five years. This is so muc… Read More
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