Last day. I meet with cousins of my mother. Crab cake at Legal Sea Foods. Despite their age, they have an active life. He is still the newsletter editor for the joint MIT/Harvard training course in public health that he founded 30 years ago. He writes in particular the review of recent scientific publications. Keeps […]
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Shoring uncertain times (14 January 2009)
Train trip to New-York. Along the North part of Chesapeake Bay. The snow somewhere between Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Arrival in Penn Station. A thought for Louis Kahn (who died of an heart attack in the toilets here) … and for “my architects”. New-York feels as usual. I am cheating with this trip since I […]
Shoring uncertain times (12 January 2009)
The conference is in the main auditorium of the Carnegie Institution of Science. Solemn, with an overview of Science whose background is a map of the US projected on 3 of the auditorium walls. The inscriptions are glorious hymns to natural religion, where science is described as the quest for understanding and illustrating the beauty […]
Shoring uncertain times (11 January 2009)
Ollsson’s closed down. When I came regularly to Washington, it was at Ollsson’s that I bought the books that one can’t discover on Amazon, those you need to hold in your hands to know that you want to read them. It was a bookstore to my taste, with just the right share of science, politics, […]
Shoring uncertain times (10 January 2009)
Almost 6 years ago, I spent in Washington DC the 8 last days before the start of the US war on Iraq. I wrote a “diary of the last days before the preventive wars”. These times were dominated by a feeling of ineluctability, the certainty of what would happen and of consequences, even if one […]
