Items from the New Horizons launch press packet, which have been hanging out in a Southwest Research Institute folder for nine-and-a-half years.
You may have heard: NASA has a mission flying past Pluto tomorrow. New Horizons. The thing's been in space for nine-and-a-half years. I was there at the launch, covering it for the Boulder Daily Camera. Wrote…
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Google's driverless, autonomous vehicles portend a radical chance in how we get around. (courtesy Google)
AVs (not audiovisual, but rather autonomous vehicles) are poised to change the developed world. It seems that about everyone who looks at transportation comes to the same conclusion. It takes a bit of explaining as to why, and a recent piece I wrote for…
Sixth Avenue and roughly Trenton St., at 6:30 a.m. on Thursday, June 25, 2015
I was going to get up and work on something entirely different, but my dusty Daily Camera reportorial instincts got the better of me and, at about 6:30 a.m., I took to the streets of our east Denver’s Lowry neighborhood to survey…
As a writer with limited Photoshop skills and very limited video-editing skills, I'm tend to be in awe of good video. Since I left the Daily Camera in 2007, though, I haven't had a chance to compare a story of mine with the video equivalent. Back then, it was always TV news people who happened to…
The James Webb Space Telescope will orbit something called L2, discovered thanks to math in an era where only sheep (and a duck and a rooster) flew. (Courtesy NASA)
My 12-year-old daughter, as 12-year-old daughters do, asked me what's the use of math. I wrote a book about space engineers. Their work is the manifestation of math. I have…