Sunny Side Up

An article in the Economist 's year-end issue dares to suggest that " doing a PhD is often a waste of time ." Some people I kn...

Don't Ask Don't Tell, R. I. P. D. O. M. A. next?

Looking north from 13th St, across the plot where 65 stood, to 14th St.

An ice sculpture of the logo of the Holy Apostles Soup Kitchen, at a fundraiser talent show/silent auction tonight. HASK has already se...

The Times has mapped out demographic changes registered by the 2010 census. My neighborhood of Prospect Heights is indeed among the most qu...

65 Fifth Ave - leveled! Seen here from the corner of 13th St., through the work entry where the main entrance used to be, and from the 5th ...

An intern at Facebook mapped the "friendships" of their network - 10 million randomly chosen friend pairings. (Click twice for th...

Snow at last!

I haven't had a chance to see much dance this season, but I'm very glad to have had a chance to see Mark Morris' "The Hard ...

At MoMA today, a player piano. I mean, a piano roll. I mean, whatever . A Bechstein grand with a hole cut out for a player to slip through -...

It's chilly today - so cold that the flowers in front of the delis have not been put out. It was also the day for teaching evaluations i...

In the new Scientific American , Charles Seife (author of Proofiness ) takes apart the Pew poll which apparently showed that atheists knew m...

65 Fifth Avenue , almost gone!

Advent (up here in the northern hemisphere) coincides with the shortening of days. Here in New York we've had pretty bright weather - th...

At our annual Religious Studies faculty dinner tonight, my colleague V recounted a joke which appeared at the close of a recent article on ...

Went today with my mathematician friend J to see some of the oldest mathematical artifacts around, in a sweet little exhibition at our frien...

Another interesting session of "Religion in Dialogue." MH, a Catholic priest who is also an authorized Zen teacher, came to class ...

Without Buddha I Could Not Be a Christian gets more and more interesting. The first four chapters are about theological questions but in th...

Well, discussion of Swidler's " Dialogue Decalogue " went well today (except for the student who kept calling him "swindl...

In Religion in Dialogue tomorrow, we're discussing Leonard Swidler's " Dialogue Decalogue ," a much-used platform for inte...