G12 – “Holiday” Season

Today I head back to the West Coast to see how much my Godson has grown, to be in a dear friend’s wedding, and to spend Thanksgiving with my family (and maybe a little USC football).  To me, it’s a perfect reunion with nearly everyone dear to me.  It’s quite a special opportunity to be […]

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G11 – Time for Beauty in Darkness

It’s getting colder and darker sooner out here in NYC, somehow though each day is still 24 full hours #magic. As the time passes, I am sure my first “real winter” will make me appreciate the season-less LA more, can’t wait for my family to send me pictures of them at the beach while I […]

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G10 – Femtophotography: Expand Your Perception of Light

Sight is one of our most dominant senses. For example, in a taste testing of wines, highly touted sommeliers were given white wines with red food dye in them.  Instead of describing the wines with words representing white wines, they used adjectives associated with and representing red wines.  They relied on their sense of sight […]

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G09 – A Pep Talk

I often hear people quoting, referencing, and reminding others about this: If you don’t have something exciting to talk about, find something else that is worth talking about. Up until recently, I have been seriously misinterpreting the quote, and I think many others might also. Or put another way, I’ve found another way to interpret […]

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G08 – So Beautiful, So Sweet, So Simple: Present Perfect

Compare and contrast, it’s what we were raised to do in school. In History: compare and contrast the x, y, z factors of the renaissance with the industrial revolution. In Math: compare these inequalities and select which one yields a higher value for x? In Science: which one of these equations produces more energy? And […]

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