The 2010 Applied Brilliance Conference in Ojai, California featured talks on Resilience and Revolution. Among the presenters were Adam Gazzaley, director of the Neuroscience Imaging Center at the University of California; E.C. Krupp, Director of Griffith Observatory; Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, electronic artist; Mark Kingwell, author of the national bestseller Nearest Thing to Heaven; Saul Griffith the Chief Scientist at Other Lab; and Nathan Callahan, who spoke on The Open Air Museum,…
Coyote Waits
A sleepy-eyed early-morning riser retrieving the morning paper in her bathrobe stands bow-legged, slack-mouth stunned. A driver of a Toyota van brakes abruptly to a stop — blocking an intersection. Ignoring my 7 a.m. walk through central Irvine, the group lopes down the middle of the street (one with a sideways glance). In close formation, their tongues dangling, they pass the community clubhouse, the pool, the tennis courts and the…
