Author: Alan N. Shapiro

  • Jets’ Playoff Chances

    Consider the scenario of the Bengals beating the Steelers then losing to the Ravens. The Cincinnati-Pittsburgh tiebreaker at 9-7 will be decided by won-long percentage within the division. The Steelers are 2-2 now and would finish 3-3. The Bengals are 1-3 now and would finish 2-4. The Steelers would be #2 in their division.

  • Twenty Basic Principles of a New Green Politics, by Alan N. Shapiro

    The disasters that we are facing in the areas of ecology, energy and the environment are well-known and they are truly horrific. However, the fact that everyone knows about these disasters is more a factor contributing to nothing constructive been done about them than it is a factor contributing to something being done about them.

  • Towards a New Green Politics, by Alan N. Shapiro

    On October 11, 2012, I gave a lecture called “Towards a New Green Politics” at the Digital Art department of the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. Here is the Abstract of the talk, and some of my lecture notes.

  • The Plane of the Future, by Alan N. Shapiro, and Congetture minime sullo spazi-tempo, by Pier Luigi Capucci

    In airports as they are today, the passengers experience the terrible inconvenience of going through the security check of their carry-on luggage. This security system – the purpose of which is, of course, absolutely vital to the prevention of terrorist incidents and hijackings – is designed like an assembly line in a factory.

  • What’s the Use of Unrequited Love?, by Vesela Mihaylova

    The subject of this thesis has its roots in a personal experience. I fell in love, but I was not loved in return and I had to ask myself what was the use or the sense of this love. The affair ended, and I decided to apply my emotions and feelings into an artistic project.

  • Inter-disciplinary or Trans-disciplinary? by Nolan Bazinet

    The discourse of reconciling two epistemologically disparate cultures (the humanities and the natural sciences) has come a long way. From the unfortunate decade of the 1990s when such a discourse – or rather, emotionally-charged debate – was dubbed ‘The Science Wars’ to today’s debates, intellectuals from both camps are finally attempting to bridge a divide.