Alexandre R.J. Francois

Turned in the keys. Thank you Radcliffe for a wonderful 10 months! This is also the end of the One-Picture-Per-Day experiment. It was harder to keep up than I thought, but I am really glad I have this record. Today's stair number: 2

One last look at the bench. Today's stair number: 2

The hot and rainy weather definitly makes plants happy! Today's stair number: 2

Major move out day: the office is now almost empty! The end is near... Today's stair number: 12+ (stopped counting)

With hand-polished copper hull, to look less new. Today's stair number: 1

Does the human carry food? Today's stair number: 1

A whole flock. Today's stair number: 2

Looking for cooler air (found some, along with mosquitos). Toaday's stair number: 5

Sunday at the museum (free!!). Today's stair number: 2

I do miss the snow... Today's stair number: 1

The Fellowship Program will soon be in a new home, and these doors will open to something else... Today's stair number: 4

The flowers do enjoy the rain! Today's stair number: 2

Wind, rain, thunder and lightnings! Today's stair number: 2

Hot and humid... the rain is coming! Today's stair number: 2

The red rose heart was magnificent. Today's stair number: 3

Boston and Longfellow Bridge from the Charles River Reservation. Today's stair number: 1

It's been a while... Today's stair number: 1

A family of geese graze along the reiver (Charles River Reservation). Today's stair number: 5

"Experiments that investigate how minds process arbitrary visual and verbal information shed very little light on the fitness costs and benefits of the human abilities that demand evolutionary explanation, such as art and humor." Geoffrey Miller, The Mating Mind , p.52.

Another side of Byerly. Today's stair number: 3

"Those brains won't invent literature or television for another hundred thousand years. They don't need to. They have one another." Geoffrey Miller, The Mating Mind , p.21.

The newly renovated Byerly Hall, new home of the Radcliffe Fellowship Program. Today's stair number: 1

The squirrels have already moved back in their newly re-decorated habitat, after almost a year of intense construction work. Today's stair number: 1

A newly re-landscaped area in the Radcliffe Yard. Today's stair number: 1

After over 18 months of loyal and faithful service, the Radcliffe Shoes (red/white/black New Balance) are calling it quits. They will be missed. Today's stair number: 3

The bao is still here, so far undisturbed by human, squirrel, bird, or even insect... Today's stair number: 1

A lone bao on the stairs. Where did it come from? Today's stair number: 2

I still miss the snow a little... Today's stair number: 2

This is where the legend was born... Today's stair number: 8

With lilacs, the olfactive almost overshadows the visual. Today's stair number: 2

White flowers are gone; pinks and purples now dominate the landscape. Today's stair number: 2

"Listening to Music is not a passive process but intensely active, involving a stream of inferences, hypotheses, expectations, and anticipations (as David Huron and others have explored)." Oliver Sacks, Musicophilia , 2007, p.211. (*) Sweet Anticipation is the title of the book by David Huron (MIT Press)