Archive for February, 2003

Last semester’s fruits

Monday, February 17th, 2003

I've put all the major papers I wrote last term on the web. For Catalina's class I wrote case studies about Knowledge Forum, MicroMUSE, and several simulations (GenScope, Biologica, and RelLab). For Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot's class I wrote an essay on socialization in schools entitled Intimacy, Bureaucracy, and ...

New York Protests

Monday, February 17th, 2003

Yesterday I went down to New York City for what turned out to be a very large protest against a possible war in Iraq. Estimates of attendance varied, but at one point I heard the following calculation. It takes about 7000 people to completely fill a block along ...