Links of the week – hot summer links edition
Whining about the weather on the internet is hardly the most original thing I can do, but wow is it hot in Korea! Being from the perpetually temperate Pacific Northwest, I’m not accustomed to prolonged heat. Today in Samcheok, adjusting for humidity, we had highs of 36 degree Celsius! It’s been nearly a month of … Read more
ivrytwr video – Samcheok’s Hwanseongul 환선굴 Cave
This past weekend Beth and I visited the Hwanseongul 환선굴 Cave in Samcheok, Gangwon-do, South Korea. We were blown away (and nearly washed away by the torrential rains). This cave is the largest karstic cave in Korea and one of the largest caves in all of Asia. At more than 650 millions years old and 6.5 … Read more
You eat first with your eyes – or, why style matters
There’s an old culinary proverb which I’m sure you’ve heard before, “you eat first with your eyes.” This means that before you even taste a dish, your opinion of it is shaped by how it looks. This is why fast-food adds always feature pictures of perfectly browned burgers sitting on crisp lettuce and fluffy buns … Read more
The Privilege of Neutrality
I am a Norwegian medievalist studying for my MA thesis at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Being a medievalist I have noticed three tendencies that are prevalent among non-medievalists, both within academia and the public sphere. First of all people are interested in the Middle Ages. Secondly, many people know very little about … Read more
Mission Statement
Why does ivry twr exist? It exists for me, and if I’m successful, others, to help make sense of a rapidly changing world. Technology and the internet has altered, and continues to alter, the ways in which we interact with each other and with the world. Creative people are seizing the opportunities created by technology … Read more
Welcome to ivry twr
For most of my life I never considered myself an optimist. If you’d ask me whether I saw the glass as half full or half empty, I probably would have trotted out the old Ben Franklin cliché that “optimists are always disappointed, but pessimists are continually delighted.” And to be honest, it’s awfully easy to … Read more
