Radio Show: Episode 7 w/Jordan Hocker
Welcome to another edition of the show! Featuring the “Typewriter Oracle”, Jordan Hocker. Witching hours and contraptions and poetry, and a few life lessons for good measure. Enjoy!
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Welcome to another edition! July 4th, Kansas Statehouse ramblings, essays, and a little surprise at the end....
Read MoreRadio Show: Episode 4 w/Eric Kirkendall
Another hour is upon us! Featuring friend and collaborator Eric Kirkendall. We talk the Lawrence Creates Makerspace, Makerfaire Kansas City, and all sorts of wonderful developments along the way. Enjoy! And happy...
Read MoreRadio Show: Episode 3 w/Dustin Baxter
Welcome to Episode 3! With guest Dustin Baxter. We discuss politics, the World Cup, local film, Lawrence weekend activities, and any tangents along the way....
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Episode 2 of the Poetry Hour/Tufte’s Variations Radio, bringing you poetry, art, politics, philosophy in pre-meditated and extemporaneous verbal essay format....
Read MoreRadio Show: Episode 1
Here’s the first episode of a new radio show coming to you right from TheVoiceofLawrence.com. Recorded right here in Lawrence, Kansas. Thanks to the amazing people at the station, letting me get up there and...
Read MorePrimary & Auxiliary Public Goods
At the very least, these graphs illustrate a mysterious world that is often buried within budgets hundreds of pages long. At most, and intentionally so, they will hopefully provide an “applied philosophy”, in the form of a simple spectrum by which we may generally follow.
Read MoreThoughts on Random Processes
What we consider to be random processes are not necessarily random, but are often sufficiently complex that the outcome cannot, under normal circumstances, be determined by pre-conceived conditions. Conjecture itself is not sufficient to “collapse the wave function”.
Read MoreA Speculation on the Elite
The once tycoon/politician/media mogul stands before his flock. He says, “There was a big, bad war. We had to hide from the bad guys, but they’re all gone now. We can live in peace.” Hugging his grand-daughter, he feels a swell of pride and relief, willfully ignorant of his own catastrophic cowardice.
Read MoreActionable Truth No. 1
August 4th, 2013 So, I don’t think I can sum up my philosophy in just a few paragraphs. No quick soundbite answers here. But we can start with something. There’s a definite lack of this in many people....
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