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We specialize in introducing foresight to people and organizations to foresight at the University of Houston Foresight program. We’ve been on a somewhat maniacal quest to find ways to improve the applications and results of foresight work. In the feedback we get about our work, we often hear something along the lines of some participants […] The post The Comfort Trap in Foresight first appeared on Hinesight....for Foresight.

Photographs from section 6 of London’s Capital Ring hiking route.

Present and Correct is not just a meticulously presented stationery store, but also a fantastic old school blog, a curatorial treasure trove of the kind that was practically extinguished by the rise of social media. A must visit / see … Continue reading →

Trying to keep track of everything happening in the Langlands program area of mathematics is somewhat of a losing battle, as new ideas and results keep appearing faster than anyone could be expected to follow. Here are various items: Dennis Gaitsgory was here at Columbia yesterday (at Yale the day before). I don’t think either lecture was recorded. Attending his lecture here was quite helpful for me in getting an …

“Skyler Graham is a co-teacher apprentice at Ember Charter Schools. She currently teaches high school English and social studies.” This article appeared in Chalkbeat, September 30, 2024. As the back-to-school season unfolded in New York, the city’s teachers set up their classrooms how they usually do: by putting up posters, reading through curriculums, sharpening pencils, and, for roughly a decade, charging Chromebooks. These lightweight laptops have become a staple of …

I often hang a Little Trees air freshener in my car called "True North," and after a long workday, I find its crisp, snowy, slightly piney aroma soothing. It’s one of the longer-lasting Little Trees scents and smells more authentically pine-like than the classic green tree, which always reminds me of a rubber Halloween mask. Whenever I catch a whiff of "True North," I wonder if it’s cold, foresty

The Truth About Harry Beck, a play about the designer of London’s iconic Tube map, is at the London Transport Museum’s Cubic Theatre through January. Writer and director Andy Burden spent years working on the play. So far reviews have been mostly positive: Theatre Vibe’s Lizzie Loveridge found it “charming,” Everything Theatre “warm,” and Broadway World calls it “as reassuring as a comfy pair of slippers,” whereas The Arts Desk’s …

In mid-June I caught COVID-19 for, I'm pretty sure, the first time. The current dominant variants are transmissible enough that they got past my defenses. I believe I caught the virus either while wearing an …

Sixty-two years ago on Thursday (Oct. 3), Wally Schirra lifted off on his Mercury mission wearing his personal wristwatch, a newly-released 2nd-generation Omega Speedmaster. Though he could not know it at the time, his choice led to six-decade-long legacy of Omega watches flying in Earth orbit and beyond. Now, a new "The First Omega in Space" Speedmaster honors that history by combining heritage details with a modern calibre.

Read part one: Building Bonfire Native Apps with LiveView Native With our initial mockups complete, we were eager to start coding in LiveView Native (LVN). There are two primary ways to debug an iOS app: using Xcode or LVN Go. LVN Go is an application available on macOS, iPad, and iPhone that allows you to test a LiveView Native app directly on a device by pointing it to the Phoenix …

The Art of the Personal Project is a crucial element to let potential buyers see how you think creatively on your own. I am drawn to personal projects that have an interesting vision or that show something I have never seen before. In this thread, I’ll include a link to each personal project with the artist statement so you can see more of the project. Please note: This thread is …

Auroras may fill half the sky over northern Minnesota.

Director Todd Phillips' Joker (2019) plunged into the heart of the rot-infested Gotham, where Arthur Fleck became the Joker, a maniacal misfit whose life had turned into an agonized scream, sometimes disguised as hysterical laughter. The result was scary, haunting, and grim. To deliver a sequel, Phillips has made a bold choice. Joker: Folie a Deux adds musical numbers as part of the soundtrack and as performances. The story also …

You didn't think this day would ever come, did you? But here it is! Our quest to read a story from every issue of Weird Tales published in the 1930s has been accomplished! And below is the proof! A list of all the 1939 stories from Farnsworth Wright's magazine of strange and fascinating fiction that I have read along with links to my blog posts about these stories. And, preceding …

There has been some interesting changes made to the LEGO Ideas rules and guidelines that was recently announced on the LEGO Ideas platform. This could result in larger and more detailed sets getting approval to become official LEGO sets. Below are the details. LEGO Ideas is about to get bigger, more detailed, and better than […]