[inaudible conversations] okay. Hello, everyone. Were going to get started. I hope you can hear me okay. Hello. Good evening, everyone. When you have an event on one of the most miserable days of the year, you get very nervous. But its great to see so many people here tonight on what is a truly awful new york city evening. We didnt really worry too much about it. Can you hear me okay now . A little better . Mic check. Okay. We didnt worry too much about it because we have a great draw today. For those of you who dont know me, my name is eric kleinen berg, professor of sociology here at nyu and also the director of the institute for public knowledge. You are in the kind of annexed space of the institute for public knowledge. Were hosting this evenings event, and we do a lot of events like this. Were the part of nyu that tries to take ideas and intellectuals that might otherwise spend too much time merchandise the ivory tower and project them out into the world. So we really aim to gener
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The rest of the house had long since gone to bed, but Thomas W. Boyde Jr. was still working.
Smoke curled from a spent cigarette in the ashtray. A row of graphite pencils lay ready to use. He kept them sharpened to a lethal point not more than five feet of drawing before restoring the point with a heavy desktop sharpener not just because it was his personal preference, but because the job required precision.
Boyde was an architect but also an engineer at heart, and that meant resolving problems with certainty. What candlepower was needed at the level of a school desk for a student to be able to see her work? What nailing patterns were needed for different building materials? What mix of grass seed would best serve in the front or back lawn?