My beat-up copy of Al Bartlett's "The Essential Exponential"
I have not rented space in a former Minuteman missile silo, nor have I stockpiled a cubic kilometer of toilet paper or a reservoir’s worth of PET water bottles. But Covid-19 is extremely serious, and it’s serious because of something Al Bartlett told me 15 years ago…
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Not Phoenix, Arizona, courtesy of American Airlines
A buddy and I – two dads on either side of 50 – chaperoned a
group of twenty 14- and 15-year-old girls from here in Denver to a soccer
tournament in Phoenix (the Desert Classic) last weekend. I write this as a
public service to share with the chaperoning public the very…
I'm always a bit laggard in my New Yorker reading and typically fall weeks or months behind -- so it is when one's New Yorker reading is done mainly while brushing one's teeth and facilitating biological imperatives. In the middle of a great piece in the Feb. 3 print edition, "The Last Time Democracy Died,"…
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I recently had dinner with a friend who's plugged into professional sports. We got to talking about the across-the-board athleticism in pro sports.
Take football: all the different sizes and body types mask the underlying reality that even the heaviest lineman moves like a cat. Many of these guys -- guys who…
What you think depends on what you read or watch. This applies broadly: a romance reader will see the world somewhat differently than a lover of thrillers, both by instinct and through the influence of what feeds their brains.
This becomes a problem, though, when information or entertainment influence the way people vote --…