Readings

The Egg Came First

While there are compelling arguments on both sides of the age-old debate, there's a good reason for preferring one to the other, and it doesn't have much to do with science.

||2012 TED Fellow Christine Marie
The Shame and Mortification of Giving a TEDTalk

The wildly popular TEDTalk symposia have, for better or worse, given public intellectuals, thinkers, and writers a global platform like none they've enjoyed before. But what happens when you're actually invited to give what organizers call "the speech of a lifetime"?

||The Future of the Book: a mixed media electronic sculpture/installation by Judith Donath, Gilad Lotan, and Martin Wattenberg.
Shelf Life: What's the Future of the Book

A drop in e-reader sales and a surge of interest in tablet devices forces a reconsideration in how we've been thinking about the book's future over the past few years.