Neil Wehrle

In his lectures at ocw.mit.edu, Professor Lewin beats a student with cat fur to demonstrate electrostatics. Wearing shorts, sandals with socks and a pith helmet, nerd safari garb, and he fires a cannon loaded with a golf ball at a stuffed monkey wearing a bulletproof vest to demonstrate the trajectories of objects in free fall.

This is a classic feedback loop – just like giving people a scale will help them lose weight, this study gave people feedback and the ability to particiapate in the energy market, and it lowered energy usage.http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/10/technology/10energy.html

Learn what is the “It” in “Use It or Lose It”. A basic understanding will serve you well to appreciate your brain’s beauty as a living and constantly-developing dense forest with billions of neurons and synapses.
Take care of your nutrition. Did you know that the brain only weighs 2% of body mass but consumes over [...]

I’d like to think I’m less prone to the lure of conspiracies, but I am a sucker for anything that exposes the vast right-wing conspiracy machine. While he correctly stepped down due to his own personal failings, Elliot Spitzer may also have been the victim of a highly politicized Judicial Department (remember the Attorney General [...]

I came across a map of the US Interstate Highway system that got me thinking.  I used to teach a class at FIT covering digital product development and UI design. One of the topics covered the representation and abstraction of the physical (real)-world. To make information usable, some level of abstraction is almost always necessary – especially [...]