Thoughts and sketches on humans, nature, running, and the end of the world
I learned from Derek at PenMachine that Google finally released the Mac version of Google Earth, so I downloaded it and played with it for a while last night. OMG! I visited Katy in California (I could even see her old red car parked outside the garage), the Google Campus in Mountain View, looked...
The beginning of the year is a time for reflection, resolutions, and lists. I am really bad in complying with the observance of notable dates and anniversaries (well, except for my birthday…), but I think this is the right time to write about the blogs I’ve read and loved during the my first eight...
In the last issue of Mojo, Bruce Springsteen, who is now 56 years old, talks about mortality : “… the finiteness of your experience is real once you are in your late fifties. This is finite. There is a limited amount of years left in what you’re doing. (…) part of taking your place...
In the introduction of Freakonomics – A rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything, we are told that Steven D. Levitt is a young, successful, and serious–if controversial–economist. We should believe what Levitt writes because he has the right credentials: he is a professor of economics at the University of Chicago. But soon...
English: To read my sister Paola’s most recent posts, visit her new blog. Italian: Paola ha un nuovo sito tutto per lei a PaolaPavese.com. Per leggere i suoi articoli, visitate il suo nuovo blog....
I’m just back from a week in Italy. Going to Italy always puts me in a strange mood; like meeting an old lover, memories of all the good and bad moments in the relationship resurface. And together with the memories of what happened, I start imagining alternative scenarios and how my life could have...