Scientist, Artist, Fulbright Scholar

Our urban fabric is woven from mutual respect we have for one another. If not respect at least we understand there are conventions of self-r...

"A well-designed object or experience is a cognitive bargain with unusually high return-on-use." These words of John Maeda resonat...

Earlier this week 19 firefighters were killed trying to protect the real estate of people who decided they could build McMansions in the wil...

Did I tell you how frustrated I was when I started to do ceramic sculpture? My "problem" is that I loved tiles. I couldn't thi...

What is permeability? What does it mean when something is permeable? What do we mean when we say something has permeated something else? In...

I struggled all winter with the horrible climate of Boston, seriously thinking about moving to a warmer place. Hated that I had to stay in t...

The water feature in our garden is a large ceramic container that I lug in every winter and bring out again in the spring. Last week when it...