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Entries Tagged as 'Life of the mind'

This came in an email from StopGlobalWarming.com or something.

March 12th, 2008 · by Andrew · No Comments

NEW THINKER OF THE MONTH
Innovative individuals are doing some creative problem solving by re-thinking things we take for granted. Noah Horowitz, an NRDC engineer, took a look at the energy hogging vending machine.
There is now one soda machine for every 100 Americans! Some 3 million machines are humming away 24 hours a day, 7 days […]

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Tags: Success · Life of the mind

Pundit’s Circle

January 8th, 2008 · by Andrew · 1 Comment

In Attendance: Andrew, Andy, Holly, Renda. Absent: Geoff, Jen
This morning brought the winds of lively national conversation through the open window of 801a. With today (finally) bringing our nation its first primary, the rules of polite company were broken as we shared our opinions on this exciting race.

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Tags: polictics · Important Cultural Moments · Safe Space · Life of the mind

Email Prose

November 18th, 2007 · by Holly · No Comments

from Holly Gressley
to Andy Pressman
date Oct 17, 2007 5:14 PM
subject email prose
Andy,
We’ve talked about creating a podcast that addressed the problem of email prose. I think email would be a more appropriate venue to debate and discuss the varying approaches to email prose. […]

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Tags: Elements of Style · Life of the mind · Internet · Administration