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A Forebear Foreshadows Indiana Jones
and written for our pleasure too For some months I had been trying to enliven an inherited 150-year-old manuscript describing a...

Tom Paine
Dec 22, 202427 min read


20/20 Blindsight
We live in an age of arrogance, and cognitive bias Covid. Take, for example, 20/20 hindsight. A lot has been written about the hindsight...

Tom Paine
Apr 8, 20245 min read


There is No Planet B
Ever since a life-changing year spent in Taiwan in 1976-7, I have been drawn to Guanyin, the Chinese goddess of compassion. I wonder how...

Tom Paine
Mar 25, 20242 min read


Sense and Sentimentality
mostly written over two decades ago, mostly still ringing true I am a sentimentalist. I am not afraid to be influenced by emotional...

Tom Paine
Feb 27, 202424 min read


Our Backstories, Front and Center
Our backstories began generations before us, and however much of that tale we think we know, there is more fascination lying in wait. We...

Tom Paine
Feb 20, 20247 min read


The Three Ds of 3-D
I wonder if the rules of the visual game might be changing. Just as the experience of the eyes has always crowded out that of the other...

Tom Paine
Dec 4, 202318 min read


Pre-Xi China
This long-march of a blog draws on material I had hoped to see into print a decade ago— China Makeover , the perspective of a design...

Tom Paine
Nov 1, 202328 min read


My Greenway Corridor
I was lucky enough to grow up in a designed landscape in Weston, Massachusetts, that showcased the talents of Olmsted, Ernest W. Bowditch...

Tom Paine
Oct 26, 20236 min read
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