Peter Gomes, larger than life, even in death
I can’t believe it’s been nearly two weeks since Harvard icon Peter Gomes […]
Category: People
Poor Economics
i went yesterday to see a talk by Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee, […]
Skloot on writing
A lovely interview with Rebecca Skloot, Author of “The Immortal Life of Henrietta […]
An award for me
As my Nieman year careens towards completion, one thought that sometimes makes me […]
Peter Lipton, In Memoriam
(Reposted from November 2007. I deleted this accidentally while purging spam posts). I […]
Impostors
I’m not much for celebrity, but I do like hearing about ordinary impostors. […]
Last class of the semester
The Business School at Harvard goes a week longer than the college, so […]
Fred Brooks, the interview
Catching up on some overdue posts… I interviewed Fred Brooks, a pioneering software […]
Nieman Journalism Fellows 2011
The Nieman class of 2011 (sans one, who was navigating treacherous visa waters). […]
The blooming of “Crash Blossoms”
One of this blog’s loyal readers coined a name for ambiguous headlines (i.e., […]