Ghosts in Transit

Ghosts around me. Caught in between, not really gone, not yet arrived. An airport terminal - hard to say which city or even which country. A...

Research and Teaching

A main topics in today's issue of the Frankfurter Rundschau (one of the major German newspapers) is dedicated to the quality of teachin...

Alice and Bob

Alice: You are late. How was your day? Bob: Sorry honey, I had to wait for t = infinity, it took forever. Alice: Thanks for asking, my day w...

What is a System?

On the weekend my confusion about the whatabouts of life, the universe and everything else temporarily reached alarming proportions. Reason ...

PS on Information Overload

As a PS to my yesterday's post on Information Overload , its dangers, and the question whether we might be making a mistake that we won...

Information Overload

Sorry for having been quiet the last days, I've been busy with too many things and I'm running behind on scheduling some upcoming tr...

Bad Hair Day

Summer has finally come to Ontario. Humidity is 100%, people swim on the streets and spend as much time as possible shock-frozen next to the...

Learning to Be Thoughtless

Social norms are unwritten laws. Did you ever go into a grocery store and took somebody else's full cart? Went into a restaurant and ate...