Recombinant design

Clowns at the circus

Short recommendations, reviews, and cautionary tales about horror in fiction (mostly movies). Read through the archives and subscribe here.

• Could 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off' in Chicago really be done? We found out.
  Answer: barely, with a few modifications.
• CU Denver will launch a ‘smart cities incubator’ program
  Some behind-the-scenes of my work life.
• Tending to Grass, and to Grief, on a Tennis Court in Iowa
  The All Iowa Lawn Tennis Club!
• Believe it or not: dry western Kansas is the place to study prehistoric oceans
  "Hell's Aquarium"
• Learning How to Die in the Anthropocene
  "Before we rolled out through the gate, I’d tell myself that I didn’t need to worry, because I was already dead. The only thing that mattered was that I did my best to make sure everyone else came back alive."
• Albert Camus: The philosopher who resisted despair
  "The problem wasn’t that Sisyphus had to roll his boulder up a hill forever; it’s that he had to roll it alone."
• Crashing Clowns: Human Noise Raises Stress and Hostility
  Same with me, clowns, same with me.
• Against Pickleball - Club Leftist Tennis
  I'm here for the needless politicization of tennis versus pickeball.
• MIT engineers build load-bearing structures from tree forks.
  Biomimicry meet reclaimed waste product.
• People Who Love War Hate Cities
  "Cities are where we see each other.  People who don’t want to see hate that."