Scott Singeisen

Falls kill more people than guns or cars, but nobody wants to talk about it. But we are going to start talking about it right here in a series about dangerous design.

The numbers are shocking: in the USA in 2013, 46,728 died from firearms. 40,901 died from car crashes. And 47,206 died from falls. But hey, most of them were old, so it's not news, even though most of them are victims of dangerous design.

The cover of The Odyssey by Homer translated by Emily Wilson

Umm, but…

Amazing.

I had an architectural client when I was working in FL. He was an ex producer for Elvis and was now recording ambient music CDs of whale sounds. We designed his sample music kiosks and when that went well we designed his recording studio. You were the precursor for our work I’m sure!

And the 5 CD changer! 👌🏻

Close-up of a vintage dual cassette tape deck, once used to copy mixtapes and share music before digital file sharing platforms like Napster.

Before Napster, this was peer-to-peer sharing

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I can’t wait for Colbert to join Letterman on ‘My Next Guest’ to discuss CBS.

If any of my #rarebooks friends have done research at Princeton Firestone Library, I would love to ask you a couple of logistical questions about visiting as an out-of-towner! Simple Q’s but the library phone number redirects to the website and I can’t find the info I’m looking for…

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August 1

Who needs coffee when you have Academia to make you feel white hot rage before 8 a.m.?

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Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower was published in 1993 and starts in 2024—a 31-year leap. Are creators imagining futures that are closer or further away?

Explore a *new* dataset of 2.5k narrative works set in the future, each tagged with its release year and setting.

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Emily Herring's book Herald of a Restless World. How Henri Bergson Brought Philosophy to the People outside on a wooden table in front of a nice floral backdrop

To celebrate the release of 'Herald of a Restless World' in paperback, I am doing a BOOK GIVEAWAY.
For a chance to win and find out why a philosopher's lectures caused the first ever traffic jam on Broadway share this post and tag someone in the comments!

I'll announce the winner a week from now!

@esing.bsky.social We can share this if we win 😉

Screen grab from website Academia.edu, with message "An AI created a podcast of your paper," the label "Private to you," and a button to listen to the podcast

For academics & scholars who've uploaded papers to Academia, this message I received this morning should be of major concern. I'll delete my account, but I assume damage is done & they've already scraped everything of mine. Should stand as a warning about sharing one's work on commercial websites

"Philosophy is an intensity that arises when someone is taken hostage by their own questions.", Emanuele Coccia

A blue cloud of gas

A blue cloud of gas

Two blue clouds of gas

A cloud is both a world and a passing shape. It escapes the map, the drawing, the measure.

No two clouds are the same — though we learn to draw them as if they were.

In April, I was invited to join the #CLOUD project, which stands for Clouds Lent Out Use Discipline. It may not look like much yet, but it’s been a long journey to get here—and I still have 24 hours to refine my cloud before handing it off to the next collaborator. Stay tuned!

This Day in Labor History: April 14, 1816. Bussa’s Rebellion began in Barbados, when 5,000 slaves rose up against the evil system of slavery the British had placed them into, part of the broader labor system of colonization. This failed, but laid the groundwork for British emancipation!

Instead of clinging to a bygone era, we should focus on the new, location-agnostic opportunities for innovation, agility, and growth that modern technology has unlocked. 3/3

But today, technology has erased many of those geographical barriers, allowing production to happen anywhere—or everywhere—at once. The dream of simply ‘bringing back’ old-school manufacturing ignores how radically the landscape has changed. 2/3

In the early-to-mid 20th century, factories thrived because they were deeply tied to their immediate environment: proximity to resources, labor, and infrastructure. That connection shaped everything from local economies to cultural attitudes about ‘good jobs’ and industrial progress. 1/3

Me either! But I follow them on Instagram

Everything they do is so so so good.

“You employ stone, wood, and concrete, and with these materials, you build houses and palaces. That is construction. Ingenuity is at work. But suddenly you touch my heart, you do me good, I am happy and I say: ‘This is beautiful.’ That is Architecture. Art enters in.”
—Le Corbusier (1887–1965)

It’s funny how much time I spend chasing money owed to me as a university professor. It’s like I’m instead a small business owner with bad customers #academicsky

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📌 this as I suspect the Tar Heel mom is not going to reflect well on UNC before this season is over