SCALES #22: pumpkin harbor traversal
Hello! Starting to feel like Real Fall here in the Bay State. A spooky house sprouted overnight across the street from my apartment. I recently drove out to...
SCALES #21: fishing for alewives
Hello! I'm back! Season Two of SCALES. And welcome new subscribers! A warning that I couldn't resist using this issue to scrape out the backlog of links I...
SCALES #20: entr'acte
Hello! This marks the end of the first season of SCALES. A handful of inspirations come to mind for wrapping these first twenty (20!) newsletters up in a bow...
SCALES #19: "local bananas"
Hello! It's a short ("short") links-only week. ▢ ▢ ▢ Jill Lepore, interviewed: "Wouldn’t it be interesting to write the history of the editor, as a figure...
SCALES #18: idle idol idyll
Hello! Last weekend I struck out to my favorite donut place in these parts. I had been itching to get out into nature more, so then I made an impulse...
SCALES #17: ice-lolly formation
Hello! Brain is feeling a little emptied out, but I want to fill up a newsletter with links, so here we go! ▢ ▢ ▢ My current coping method with awful...
SCALES #16: "at least 127 colossal underground pillars"
Hello! Stayed up way too late last night finishing The North Water by Ian McGuire: nasty, brutish, short tale of a late-period whaling expedition that (of...
SCALES #15
Hello! I've been ever-so-slowly making way through Teju Cole's essay collection, Known and Strange Things, and maybe unsurprisingly based on how much I liked...
SCALES #14: "The tool to find out who you are"
Hello! Commencement day in Harvardland. Red-robed folk walking down Mass Ave and around the Square early this morning, which I can't help but smile at. Gown...
SCALES #13
Hello! I'm back from two weeks off due to a variety of reasons (going to a wedding! going to a graduation! thesis committee meeting!). Latest update from lab...
SCALES #12
Hello! Links only this week. ▢ ▢ ▢ So I've been listening to this podcast... Koji on Gastropod. (Also excellent to see them live at the Museum of Science.)...
SCALES #11
Hello! Some code-wrangling this week in lab. For a while I've needed a way to automate extracting my data from the mass spectrometer. The commercial software...
SCALES #10
Hello! After a long time in the wilderness of struggling to get an experiment working (not completely finished even now), I'm starting on some preliminary...
SCALES #9
Hello! I've almost finished reading Outline by Rachel Cusk. Fresh off of Anna Karenina it feels like I've been flying through the pages. I am a sucker for...
SCALES #8
Hello! Yesterday I went to a talk by Gina McCarthy, EPA administrator during Obama's second term. (One of the baldest illustrations of élite privilege at...
SCALES #7
Hello! I just finished reading Anna Karenina. It's been quite the process, full of failed attempts (and a viewing of the Tom Stoppard-penned film adaptation,...
SCALES #6
Hello! In honor of the start of US Daylight Savings Time (and the confusion it caused me for a video call to Switzerland), I wanted to know, what exactly is...
SCALES #5
Hello! Recently I've been listening to quite a bit of music on my old portable touchscreen-enabled listening device™, which has taken on the role of an...
SCALES #4
Hello! One thing that blew my nineteen-year-old mind in Music History 101 was a critical approach to the idea of virtuosity. Growing up taking classical...
SCALES #3
Hello! Over time I've learned there's an entire atlas's worth of atmospheric chemistry place names. The most famous is probably Mauna Loa, home of the...