Objective, verifiable lies – and why we need them
Like active duty soldiering, accounting is one of those peculiar occupations which is made up of long stretches of humdrum activity — at least this is how it appears to outsiders — punctuated by unpredictable moments of turmoil and fear….
From paper flowers to platonic kisses
Having graduated with an electrical engineering degree, Suhasini Paul decided that toys were her real future — and, after a 2005 post-grad at the National Institute of Design in Ahmedabad, India, she began designing them with abandon. Her toys are…
Too much evidence, too little judgment?
When confronted with the complexity and ambiguity of disease or even of every-day sickness, each of us as patients could hardly be blamed for taking comfort in an approach to medicine that is advertised as scientific, rational, and founded on…
More than intellectual eye-candy
A recent trend in publication design is the filling of surplus page space with boxes containing over-sized numerals which are in turn followed by text in a smaller font, the pair in combination relating a statistical fact of potential interest…
Lots of sex please, we’re apes
Guest post by Zach Kuehner It is no secret. Countless marriages end in divorce. Some statistics estimate that more than half of all marriages eventually fail. It is clear that something is wrong, but every day, starry-eyed sweethearts rush down…
The shining white reef of Shenzhen
Like Chicago after the Great Fire of 1871, China’s rapid economic development and associated cultural aspirations have enabled it to serve as a kind of blank slate for some of the most vibrant and radical architecture being built in the…
