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Big City, Small Robot

Several years ago, I began to make human-dependent cardboard robots and place them on the streets of New York City. These little robots, which came to be known as Tweenbots (a combination of the…

Behavioral Economics & Psychology   /   AUGUST 4 2011

Help Me Today, I’ll Help You Tomorrow

In the course of our lives, we come across countless opportunities to help others. The occasional homeless person or charity asks for a donation, or the Red Cross is collecting blood across the street….

Behavioral Economics & Psychology   /   JUNE 24 2011

Do Libraries Give Us the Freedom to Steal?

I am interested in the morally ambiguous realm of music/video/book piracy, a place where everyone has something to say and no qualms about saying it. A couple weeks ago, over a chocolate croissant, I…

Behavioral Economics & Psychology   /   JUNE 10 2011