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Currents: Are Metrics Blinding Our Perception?

The Trixie Telemetry company believes in hard, quantifiable truths. It believes that there is a right time and wrong time to breast-feed a baby. It believes that certain hours and rooms are better for a child’s naps than others and that data can ...

From ANAND GIRIDHARADAS, The New York Times,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Twitter Inc,  Harvard University,  Rockefeller Foundation

Currents: Virtual Classrooms Could Create a Marketplace for Knowledge

CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS — In the autumn of 1963, the American magazine Popular Mechanics heralded an innovation that seemed bound to change the world: the “teacherless classroom.” The magazine told of a new building at the University of Miami, ...

From ANAND GIRIDHARADAS, The New York Times,  6 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Popular Mechanics,  University of Miami,  Massachusetts Institute of Technology,  Scott McNealy,  Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Currents: An Economy in Need of Holistic Medicine

CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS — The American economy is having what doctors call an acute episode. Employment won’t throb. The circulation of capital remains weak. Industry is breathing, but barely. And if we can agree on anything one year into this mess, ...

From ANAND GIRIDHARADAS, The New York Times,  23 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  U.S. Congress,  Harvard University,  Bill Clinton,  Deepak Chopra

Boycotts Minus the Pain

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. Craigie on Main here is one of those socially conscious restaurants where the food is as moral as it is tasty. The chicken had roamed freely. The vegetables had sprouted locally. I could only assume that the tuna, before being ...

From ANAND GIRIDHARADAS, The New York Times,  10 Oct 2009

Related Topics: BAE Systems Inc.

Currents: Expressing Convictions at the Mall

CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS — Craigie on Main is one of those socially conscious restaurants where the food is as moral as it is tasty. The chicken had roamed freely. The vegetables had sprouted locally. I could only assume that the tuna, before being ...

From ANAND GIRIDHARADAS, The New York Times,  9 Oct 2009

Related Topics: BAE Systems Inc.

Currents: Edging Out Congress and the Public

CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS — It took just eight months for the joy that filled the Washington Mall at the chilly January inauguration of Barack Obama to give way to the sign-waving that filled it at a recent rally: the president depicted as the Joker and ...

From ANAND GIRIDHARADAS, The New York Times,  25 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  George W. Bush,  U.S. Republican Party,  Garry Wills

‘Athens’ on the Net

PERHAPS the biggest big idea to gather speed during the last millennium was that we humans might govern ourselves. But no one really meant it. VIRTUAL TOWN HALL President Obama in March took questions via the Internet. Richard asked about health care, ...

From ANAND GIRIDHARADAS, The New York Times,  12 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  White House,  Valerie Jarrett,  George W. Bush,  Facebook Inc.

Currents: Democracy 2.0 Awaits an Upgrade

CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS — Perhaps the biggest big idea that gathered speed during the last millennium was that we humans might govern ourselves. But no one really meant it. What was really meant in most places was that we would elect people to govern ...

From ANAND GIRIDHARADAS, The New York Times,  11 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  White House,  Valerie Jarrett,  George W. Bush,  Facebook Inc.

Farewell to an India I Hardly Knew

MUMBAI, India The first thing I ever learned about India was that my parents had chosen to leave it. The country was lost to us in America, where I was born. It had to be assembled in my mind, from the fragments of anecdotes and regular journeys ...

From ANAND GIRIDHARADAS, The New York Times,  4 Jul 2009

Letter from India: Journey to India Is Inside the Mind

MUMBAI — The first thing I ever learned about India was that my parents had chosen to leave it. The country was lost to us in America, where I was born. It had to be assembled in my mind, from the fragments of anecdotes and biannual journeys east. Now, ...

From ANAND GIRIDHARADAS, The New York Times,  2 Jul 2009

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