While we were digging out of snowmageddon and wondering whether the winter would ever end, Susanne Skinner and I wrote a lot of posts on a variety of topics.

If you missed any, here’s a roundup of posts from March and April organized by topic. The Next Phase blog is about things that interest us—and we’re interested in a lot of things—so these posts cover a pretty broad spectrum. Pour a glass of wine, kick back and catch up with any of our musings that you may have missed.

Cat Selfie

Culture Shock

• Did NO ONE Pay Attention in English Class? Anyone? Bueller?
• Shoulda. Coulda. Wouda. Wait. What?
• The Lost Art of Letter Writing
• The Selfie Phenomenon
• They Shoot Horses Don’t They? And Will They?
• Decoding the Sexes: Getting Men to Dress Up
• An Astounding Question: Where Do Kids Learn These Things?

Life and Learning

• Anna’s Pocketbook
• Got Jeans?
• The Lessons I Learned at Lincoln Park
• Mending Wall One Rock at a Time
• The Winter of My Discontent
• Finding Good News in a Bad News World

Source: Boston Redevelopment Authority

Business and Technology

• Can We Tell When We Hit Bottom?
• Did Life Imitate Art or Did Art Imitate Life?
• Hire the Character, Develop the Skill
• The Smartest Guy in the Room May Not Be the Best Choice
• The Innovation District Scales Up from the Fish Piers
• A Dangerous Mind Weighs in on Labor Force Participation
• Finding the Human Workplace
• Age Doesn’t Matter—Unless You Want It To

Movies & Entertainment

• Two Movies About Genius
• The Message in “Frozen” Isn’t Hidden
• The Grand Budapest Hotel: Quirky but Good
• 25 Science Fiction Movies Coming Up in 2014
• You Can Choose to be a Reckless Space Pirate
• Captain America: Death and Destruction on a Super Scale
• Draft Day: The Real NFL Competition Is In the Front Office

Mars Colony — NASA

Science & Climate

• The year Without a Summer: Surprise! It’s Not This Year
• It’s Baa-ack: Good News and Bad News About the MERS Corona Virus
• The Martian: A Story of Survival on the Red Planet
• And While We’re On Mars . . .

News & Updates

• Updates to Six Recent Posts: MERS, Runaway Horses, and More

In the post Did Life Imitate Art or Did Art Imitate Life? I mentioned a book that I had read last year, an anthology of short stories. Although one of the stories impressed me with its vision of a dystopian Detroit, I could not remember either the title of the book or the author of the story.  My son, Mogan, filled in that blank for me.

The story is “Stochasti-city” by Tobias S. Bucknell and it appears in the anthology METAtropolis edited by John Scalzi. with original stories set in an urban future  Thank you, Morgan, for finding it.