Category: Urbania | Beneath City Streets
Reflexology 101 | The Chinese Foot Massage
Historically, I’ve never liked anyone touching my feet. But, with new business relations emerging in Hong Kong and China, during a visit last fall I found myself politely rolling with the customary punches so to speak…I got my first Chinese foot massage. Probably the most uniquely spent $20 you can ever invest is in a…
Read MoreThe World was Flat, and Now it’s Sinking
I’ve been finding tremendous value in taking steps back to reflect on how the world turns and how life ends up presenting itself. The more I do this, the more I realize that we [humans] have much more control over our fateful destiny than we often realize, and yet this predeterminism is only really put…
Read MoreTrapped Under the Sea | a review
With my recent travel schedules I’ve managed to do some much needed catch up on my reading list, and just turned the last page of Neil Swidey’s ‘Trapped Under the Sea’. The book recounts the tragic event involving the loss of two divers during the Deer Island outfall tunnel project in Boston several years ago.…
Read Morebeneath city streets
I found it rather fitting today to find myself fielding emails about celebrating Earth Day using an iPhone and while doing ‘fieldwork’ in the heart of the city of Boston. I was forced to find some appreciation of the gray and brown, rather than green, and came to realize that he world around us is…
Read Moresunday; snowy sunday…
Talk about the woes of winter – this one can’t come to an end soon enough. With seemingly every weekend being buried with snow, there hasn’t been much time freed up to stay on top of proficiency dives and new experimental techniques which had been the weekend norm for about the last year. This has…
Read Morethe consumer machine, mass conformity, and a new lfie in the sea
My weekend started with a task not too foreign to me in recent years – filling a 10 yard dumpster outside of my middle-class suburban home as we get the ball rolling with a basement renovation project. I asked myself, yet again, “where does all the garbage go?” Now, I certainly do not pretend to have…
Read MoreRoosevelt & the American Museum of Natural History
Yesterday marked my annual marathon style urban expedition to New York City for professional meetings at the American Museum of Natural History. I leave Providence around 0530, and am walking the city streets by 0900. From Grand Central to AMNH is about a 35 minute walk if you’re hustling, which I do to take in…
Read Moreno more brick and mortar – bigger isn’t always better
A colleague recently shared an article with me that describes a new concept of inflatable additions for the space station or other space habitats. Idea simply being that one can pack all of the essential mission-critical infrastructure into a smaller package, then ‘inflate’ once on site to have a reasonably sized bubble to live and…
Read Morethe voting ‘blues’
I’m appalled. Among the few actions we, US citizens, are empowered and encouraged to do by our government to contribute to this great democracy is vote. Having voted just minutes ago, I am inclined to say that while we are empowered and encouraged – we are far, far from enabled. The process is a catastrophic…
Read MoreBook Release | My Providence Volumes I & II
Every day in the field sheds light on a vast new world, and a new perspective on life in the sea. While much of what we do as scientists, innovators, and educators is quite linear – an equal yet often overlooked body of work is quite abstract. There is an art in exploration, where we find…
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