Like millions of other people, Kate and I watched the Oscars this week. As Daniel Day-Lewis walked towards the stage to accept his Academy Award for Best Actor, the voiceover informed us that he was the first male actor to win the award three times. Wondering what the first two awards were for, we turned
This post is sparked by this article about unwritten dress codes in academia. The perspective is doubly foreign, in the literal geographic sense (it’s about Oxford) and in the disciplinary sense (it’s about science); it’s also more about women’s fashion than men’s. But it got me thinking about sartorial choices, and reminded my of the
As I was updating my C.V. to include my latest book review, it dawned on me that I seem to have an conscious preference for book reviews that appear online. I’m early in my career, and I don’t yet get a lot of requests to review — rather, if I have strong feelings about a