Researchideas, progress reports, inspirational quotes, book reviews … all things related to my current research interests

A rainbow is an optical and meteorological phenomenon – thus, a rainbow is not an object, and cannot be physically approached.



Since fall 2011 I own a Zeo Sleep Manager. Every night I put on a headband that has a sensor resting against my forehead.







A processing.js app that creates a processors visual Ganzfeld Effect. It starts out with an monotonous red color field and slowly amplifies any processor noise by coloring pixels and producing patterns.

Where Good Ideas Come From On the flight back from Austria to Montreal I’ve read Steven Johnson’s Where Good Ideas Come From. I really like his work – i’ve read Mind Wide Open and Emergence before – because he manages …

Steven Strogatz is a professor of applied mathematics at Cornell University. I own two of his books, Sync (2003) and Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos (1994), read some of his papers Exploring complex networks (Nature, 2001), watch him on TED and …
