Sachsenhausen and bikelanes

Weird combination of topics for this final Berlin dispatch. Want to show a bunch of photos at the end of the lovely bike lanes that are normal parts of the streets here in Berlin. Some are side-paths and some are pink marked lanes in the streets. So those photos come up at the end.

First, […]

Mushrooms

I’m putting this topic under ‘technology?’ because I like the way the category blends ‘naturally’ into the rest of the living world. The adapative capabilities of living species are abundantly evident in countless areas, but few are as glorious and weird and fascinating as mushrooms. I went ‘shrooming last weekend in Salt Point State Park […]

Art of Science

Finished reading The Body of the Artisan by Pamela H. Smith, subtitled “Art and Experience in the Scientific Revolution”. It’s a beautiful art book, full of illustrations and plates to bring forth her argument that the artists and artisans of the late 1500s and 1600s were crucial participants in developing a new epistemology. The work […]