Pictures from the MIT Museum’s eccentric and beautiful kinetic sculpture collection by artist-in-residence Arthur Ganson, which Ross and I first saw four and a half years ago on a perfect afternoon in Cambridge.

I am writing about Charles Francis Richter at the moment… thinking about earthquakes, thinking about Indonesia, thinking about how a person can get used to tragedy. Thinking about how I have gotten used to tragedy. Not inured to it, not numb to it, not lacking in a desire to do something about it — just used to it.