As a former newspaper reporter, I’m trying to figure out why stark evidence that Bashar Al Assad’s Syrian regime systematically starved, tortured and killed roughly 11,000 men who were, effectively, prisoners of war hasn’t gotten more play. The...
Walking off a short jog yesterday with an old friend from Canton, Ohio who lives in Sydney and has kids with strong accents, I came across a man flying a drone over a house around the corner. “Louie, sorry man, I’ve got to talk to...
I’m on the Asahi Glass Foundation mailing list. Despite being made of glass, this is a serious foundation, most famous for its annual bestowing of the Blue Planet Prize. When I say mailing list, I mean this literally — you get...
NASA sent out a press release with two Mars-related news items yesterday. Whether this was an attempt to bury the bad news, you decide. First, the good news: An erstwhile freshwater lake in what’s now Gale Crater, whose rocks the Curiosity...
Occasionally the full ridiculousness of modern, rich-country existence slaps you square on the cheek. It should happen more often. This morning, I was washing off fresh raspberries when I told Maya, 8, “You know, this is kind of miraculous...
I’m in the middle of a bit of a website revamp. Moving from an aging, custom-designed HTML base (for which I learned Dreamweaver from a book. Ah, memories…) to a WordPress base. It’s not going particularly well, to be honest...
Aggressive climate action ASAP (left figure) minimizes future warming. Inaction (right figure) results in catastrophic levels of warming, 9°F over much of U.S. (Via ClimateProgress, IPCC) If the Intergovenmental Panel on Climate...
The small team still running Deep Impact, in orbit for going on nine years, on Aug. 8 lost touch with the spacecraft. Deep Impact smacked the comet Tempel 1 on Independence Day 2005 and went on to swing by a second comet, Hartley 2, and then hunt...
The worst of this insane tropical storm is happening parts north – Boulder, Lyons and environs. There geographic verticality is guiding once-in-a-generation (rarer yet, actually) rains into tight channels that are shooting stream flow...
Al Bartlett, Boulder physics professor emeritus who dedicated his post-retirement career to preserving Boulder and trying to get people not as smart as him (which was pretty much everybody) to understand the exponential function and its...
I played college soccer and have, in the ensuing 23 years, held firm to a no-pain, no-gain exercise philosophy. As recently as a couple of of weeks ago I still scoffed at the “fat burn” heart-rate levels my Polar FT7. I ran at 95...
The most important spacecraft since the Hubble Space Telescope has been felled by a couple of reaction wheels that stubbornly held to their predicted useful lives, NASA reports. Something about Kepler, despite its stubborn refusal to return...
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