Blog Posts

Using the Chicago Marathon to learn quantum complexity

By Kate Blackwood / November 18, 2025

Seeing the same race from so many different angles made me think that every one of the runners, from the winners and national record setters to the mid-packers to the last finishers had some kind of a connection to every other one.

The butterflies are stalking me

By Kate Blackwood / September 30, 2025

I couldn’t get away from butterflies this month. They were suddenly everywhere, so I started to pay attention.

Love and electricity: The novel ‘Child of Light’

By Kate Blackwood / August 13, 2025

Without breaking out of the character of 1896, Jesi Bender’s CHILD OF LIGHT gives an eerie premonition of electricity’s progress in the past 125 years.

‘So-called’: Media Objects podcast thinks critically about AI

By Kate Blackwood / August 3, 2025

Two episodes, broadcasting this week on KALW’s Bay Made show starting August 4, put AI into historical context and re-center human intelligence.