JulieLeung.com: a life told in tidepools

One of the books I read while en route to Boston and back was Lawrence Lessig’s Free Culture. The subtitle of the book is How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity. Today seems to be a particularly appropriate day to post my summary of this book, as […]

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And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow fast in movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again in the summer. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, page 4

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Yesterday I printed and read the paper Performance in Competitive Environments: Gender Differences, published in the August 2003 MIT Quarterly Journal of Economics referenced in Women less competitive? at misbehaving.net. In the study, male and female students at an engineering institution in Israel were asked to compete against each other by solving mazes and found […]

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It was only gone for about fifteen minutes, but yesterday morning I had thought I lost a piece of my childhood forever. My mom gave me a yellow polka-dot cape and matching purse that I had as a girl. Abigail likes them and has started carrying the little purse places. Yesterday morning she took it […]

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Captives can be coerced into choices they’d never make in freedom. And so last Sunday on my way home from Boston, as a prisoner/passenger of United Airlines, I decided to watch the in-flight film. During my travels I had already watched the movie Paycheck three times without sound. It was three times enough for me […]

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