Babies can teach us a lot about a more natural way to learn, adapt and experiment. There isn’t one right answer, and perfectionism can’t be achieved in an ever-moving, living system. Nature is always experimenting, learning, and adapting. This always...
In his book, Physics of the Future: How Science will Shape Human Destiny and our Daily Lives by the Year 2100 Michio Kaku writes “…the future is already here; it is just unequally distributed.” In Physics of the Future Kaku shares his vision for AI, computers,...
The signs of spring have come to my part of the world in Minnesota. We’ve had a string of 40+ degree days and the snow has melted, at least for now. The ice has melted on the Mississippi River in front of my house. I live about a mile above a river dam, so it...
I’ve been thinking about how we can frame our time after COVID. I keep hearing that we are moving toward a new normal, but this framing implies that we are letting go of an “old normal” and entering into a new one. But what does normal mean? Normal implies that...
Dr. Allen asked me to write an eighth blog yet again from just ten minutes north of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. The news is that California has yet again flattened the curve (for a fifth time) as I write this in late February 2021. So far, our state...
