The first time I read the full transcript of the last fateful transcripts of the cockpit of Air France Flight 447 I was haunted for days (published here in Popular Mechanics in December 2011). Lost with no realistic reference points of experience. Just the facts. This morning at 6am I read a new article in [...]
From the excellent essay in The New Yorker Up and then down: The lives of elevators by Nick Paumgarten a brilliant paragraph about where we stand when we stand in an elevator “Passengers seem to know instinctively how to arrange themselves in an elevator. Two strangers will gravitate to the back corners, a third will [...]
Ideas grow, they crawl about, they hide, they sleep, they grow again, they evolve, they become beautiful, they flutter, they fly about, maybe for a day, maybe for a week, they may even fly across the ocean, or they may end up pinned down in a book. But If you are lucky the idea will [...]