This Time It's Personal Are We Doing The Terrorists' Job For Them? “As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.” ~ a hella-queer Irish dude I hate to admit it, but tragedies like the recent Orlando shooting no
Journo Stuff OpenVisConf: Sketchy Notes Earlier this week, I spoke at OpenVisConf, about how systems thinking and simulations can CHANGE THE WORLD!!! or summin' like that. I'm happy that my talk was relatively early in
Talks How To Simulate The Universe, In 134 Easy Steps Here's the text version of a talk I gave a few days ago! My talk was about systems and simulations – and how they can make us more empathetic, more empowered,
Explorable Explanations Why Simulate? When most people hear the word “simulation”, they probably think about The Matrix, and whether we're all living in a simulation or something. But real simulations are made for a
Go After The System Systems Thinking & Journalism: Sketchy Notes This week, I went to this small two-day workshop for journalists to learn about Systems Thinking, and to figure out how to apply it to their own work! Here are
Journo Stuff Creating With Contradictions Imagine two students care a lot about the fishing industry. Maybe this is an Alaskan school, who knows. The first student, Alice, cares mostly about the ecological impact of the industry. She knows ecologies have a fine balance, so she makes a simplified model
Journo Stuff Hello, FRONTLINE! Today, I started my Knight/Mozilla OpenNews Fellowship at PBS Frontline! So I'll be here in Boston, MA for the next ten months. Also, looking forward to schmoozing at the MIT Media Lab, also here in Boston. Anyway, pretty dang excited to be here!
