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  NBER STORY

  01.13.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  I have a story in the January edition of the NBER (National Bureau of Economic Research) digest on the true effects of “Work First” welfare reform.
  “…welfare reforms have reduced both the probability that women aged 21-49 will attend high school and that those aged 24-49 will attend college, by 20-25 percent. These findings suggest that […]

• Audio, Experiments, Free Download, MIT, Music, Pictures, Portfolio, Uncategorized, Video, Writing

  BUILD DAY

  01.06.09 | Permalink | 1 Comment

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  BUILD DAY
  It’s a gray Saturday morning and the MIT campus is dead.  Empty courtyards testify that most students are either sleeping off last night’s fun, or still attached to a screen after an all-night computer programming session.  Some are up, however, and I’m headed to meet them at Build […]

• News, Portfolio, Writing

  INDIRECT EFFECTS

  12.17.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Gallflies used to combat invasive knapweed in Montana–which does an estimated $14 million of damage statewide–have recently been shown to hurt native plant growth through indirect food chain “ripple effects.”
  The flies, originally introduced in the 1970s, provide an attractive source of extra calories for native deermice, which leads to a deermouse population increase.  Since the […]

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  AMERICA’S NEXT TOP MODEL

  12.09.08 | Permalink | Comment?

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  As old methods fail to quell ongoing Wall Street turmoil, decision makers may soon be hunting for “America’s Next Top Model”—computer model, that is.
  Some contestants will likely come from a new breed of social science simulations called “agent-based models” (ABMs). The idea is to use the huge number of calculations available to modern […]

• Audio, Drafts, Remixes, Science, Video, Writing

  NASW ROUND UP

  11.30.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  This post rounds out what I have from the 2008 NASW conference in Palo Alto.
  These are presented in no particular order.
  First up, here’s a talk by Prof. Cliff Nass of Stanford about robots that can disobey humans and howwe can build a world of more harmonious human-machine interaction. He’s a very lively speaker. […]

• News, Pictures, Portfolio, Science, Video, Writing

  DANCE OF THE MUSSELS

  11.18.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  (Video courtesy of Johan van de Koppel.)
  It’s a lousy dancer who steps on his partner’s foot, but groups of mussels use a similar foot game to form intricate patterns in a newly discovered underwater dance that benefits all involved.

  Scientists in the Netherlands have for the first time shown how individual mussels, acting seemingly independently, naturally […]

• Science, Video, Writing

  NASW INTERVIEWS

  11.12.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  NASW ADVICE from Main Sequence on Vimeo.
  Here are some writing tips from Emily Sohn, a freelance journalist who frequently writes for Science News for Kids, and Andy Fell of the egghead blog and UC Davis News Service.  Emily and Andy were both speakers at the 2008 NASW Conference in Palo Alto and were gracious enough […]

• Video, Writing

  TOXOPLASMOSIS

  11.10.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  A talk by Stanford primatologist Ropert Sapolsky from this year’s NASW conference.  He talks about parasites that can hijack your mind, sort of like Money Mark.  Well…technically they hijack rat brains, making them less afraid of cats.
  Apologies for the weird camera angle.

• Audio, Experiments, Portfolio, Video, Writing

  WORK

  11.04.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  WORK from Main Sequence on Vimeo.
  pause from the work
  and turn to the hill
  a stark silhouette against the burning sky
  the Master stands with two clenched fists
  in his left a bottle, to harvest the idle essence
  in his right a shotgun, to guarantee the next year’s crop
  his price is power
  mine is protection
  i return to work
  and pulverize
  the last remaining […]

• Ableton, Drafts, Music, Video, Writing

  SNAKE FANG v2

  09.30.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Still working on this one, not sure if it’s going anywhere.  I’m playing around with the TAL dub delay free plugin, video warp markers in live, and the camel audio camel space effect plugin.  And these are some trees.

  Snake Fang v2 from Main Sequence on Vimeo.
  Here’s something I’m working on at school that’s not related […]

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