Sorry I didn’t get a chance to post earlier today but I was at a conference where I didn’t have access to the internet. I heard something today that only an academic would say. I was asking someone about his poster and he kept using the phrase, “four seasonal period.” After a while I finally stopped him and asked, “you mean a year?” Yup.

I haven’t been enjoying TED talks as much recently but here’s a good one I saw recently (i.e. last night). The guy is a little wired but his call for a ‘moral operating system’ applied pretty much to everyone despite the fact that he’s addressing computer people: