Ruminations – Page 3

Author of Uncertainty and Enterprise: Venturing Beyond the Known

Alice in Genderland

Last week, a colleague of subcontinental persuasion who had been on leave last term sent around an email expressing surprise

The day Kabul fell I found myself at a Peet’s in Harvard Square. I had an inkling the barista might

Today’s Wall Street Journal has an interview with a U Penn historian, whose image of the Founding Fathers is similar

Gave me joy to write this nomination In nominating Richard Nelson, I feel both honored and nervous. He has secured

First oped in more than a year (when I was maniacally trying to get my medical innovation course done… Trigger

The venerable sage, Bob Aliber (and co-author of Manias, Panics, and Crashes), sent along this fine memory of the late,

E, a Latina immigrant and single mother, who tidies my (bijou) apartment just heard her son was admitted to Harvard

European Financial Managment has just published ‘Symmetrical Ignorance: The Cost of Anonymous Lemons.’ It’s (kind of) a 50th Anniversary ‘inversion’

Good to see their scholarships for “girl students” in science (;-)) keeps growing. I gave one in my parent’s name

I regard death from disease, storms, earthquakes, accidents, and misadventures as an integral part of the natural order. Certainly sad