{"id":1403,"date":"2009-07-19T02:30:15","date_gmt":"2009-07-19T09:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/?p=1403"},"modified":"2009-07-19T15:55:23","modified_gmt":"2009-07-19T22:55:23","slug":"the-sunday-diigo-links-post-weekly-40","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2009\/07\/19\/the-sunday-diigo-links-post-weekly-40\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sunday Diigo Links Post (weekly)"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"diigo-linkroll\">\n<li>\n<p class=\"diigo-link\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/blog\/arxiv\/23844\/?nlid=2182\">The Curious Link Between Parked Cars and Perched Birds (Technology Review: Blogs: arXiv blog)<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-description\">Thought-provoking post about &#8220;random matrix theory.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-tags\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/cloud\/lampertina\">tags<\/a>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/mit_techreview\">mit_techreview<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/math\">math<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/statistics\">statistics<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/random_matrix_theory\">random_matrix_theory<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/petr_seba\">petr_seba<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"diigo-link\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/07\/12\/arts\/design\/12ouro.html?_r=1&amp;pagewanted=all\">Inside the Exteriors of the Architect Toyo Ito &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-description\">Profile of architect Toyo Ito, who tries, in his work, to capture qualities that (it seems to me) relate to embodiment (\u201cI sometimes feel that we are losing an intuitive sense of our own bodies&#8221; &#8211; Ito). Ouroussoff describes the following aspects, really resonant:<br \/>\nQUOTE<br \/>\nHis career can be read as a lifelong quest to find the precise balance between seemingly opposing values \u2014 individual and community, machine and nature, male and female, utopian fantasies and hard realities.<\/p>\n<p>His ability to find such balances consistently has made him one of our great urban poets, someone who has been able to crystallize, through architecture, the tensions that lie buried in the heart of contemporary society. It makes his work especially resonant today, when much of the world is drawn to one form of extremism or another.<br \/>\nUNQUOTE<\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-tags\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/cloud\/lampertina\">tags<\/a>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/toyo_ito\">toyo_ito<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/architecture\">architecture<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/japan\">japan<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/tokyo\">tokyo<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/embodiment\">embodiment<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/nicolai_ouroussoff\">nicolai_ouroussoff<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/nyt\">nyt<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Posted from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\">Diigo<\/a>. The rest of my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\">favorite links<\/a> are here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Curious Link Between Parked Cars and Perched Birds (Technology Review: Blogs: arXiv blog) Thought-provoking post about &#8220;random matrix theory.&#8221; tags: mit_techreview, math, statistics, random_matrix_theory, petr_seba Inside the Exteriors of the Architect Toyo Ito &#8211; NYTimes.com Profile of architect Toyo Ito, who tries, in his work, to capture qualities that (it seems to me) relate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[290],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1403"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1405,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403\/revisions\/1405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}