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Some background on my new book, “A Beard Cut Short”

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27 days ago toddneff #MeToo, A Beard Cut Short 279

Trump’s a bad choice for this beach dweller

TweetShareShareI’ve learned to ignore Trump 2020 signage and those who display them. It’ll drive you crazy otherwise. More than 40 percent of the country will vote for a dangerous incompetent for reasons that make twisted sense (for the rich, low...

October 21, 2020 toddneff climate change, Sanibel Island, sea level rise, Trump 330

Covid-19 in CO and FL: A tale of the tape

TweetShareShareI was reticent to travel to Florida from my adoptive home state of Colorado. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s laissez-faire lassitude toward the pandemic – to Floridians’ great detriment – a has been all too well-documented. But then I...

October 18, 2020 toddneff coronavirus, covid-19 267

Lidar (and me) on the Curiosityness podcast

TweetShareShareTravis DeRose of the excellent Curiosityness podcast — an eclectic and fascinating smorgasbord with episodes spanning the visual effects of Star Wars, how to get started mountain biking, the Presidential Pet Museum, the...

September 15, 2020 toddneff #curiosityness, #iphone12, #lidarhistory, lidar 339

Lidar to hit mainstream in pockets (not on cars)

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August 25, 2020 toddneff #iphone12, #lidarhistory, lidar 659

An ash and the emerald ash borer

TweetShareShareI began to look at our ash tree not as trash, but as something that’s dead but doesn’t quite know it...

June 30, 2020 toddneff #ashmageddon, #beasmartash, #coloradotrees, #emeraldashborer, #kentuckycoffeetree 768

Earthview Media’s statement on racism

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June 11, 2020 toddneff #BlackLivesMatter, #GeorgeFloyd, #racism, #vitaminD 512

Don’t wear a mask. This is about freedom.

TweetShareShareSure, I’ll wear a mask: when you put it on my too-warm, pneumonic body as you wheel me from the inpatient tower to the ICU for proning and...

May 26, 2020 toddneff #Covid-19, coronavirus, Masks 795

Coronavirus in the air: what we know; what can help

TweetShareShareJust because it doesn’t look dirty doesn’t mean it’s clean. That’s always been true, of course. But the coronavirus pandemic is reinforcing this lesson in unspeakably tragic ways. A gleaming doorknob could well be coated with...

April 14, 2020 toddneff #Covid-19, #SARS-CoV-2, bioaerosol, coronavirus, viral transmission 579

Coronavirus is exponential math in human lungs

TweetShareShareI 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...

March 10, 2020 toddneff #AlBartlett, #Covid-19, #exponential function, #LizSpecht, coronavirus 695

A chaperoning hellscape, courtesy of American Airlines

TweetShareShareA 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...

February 12, 2020 toddneff American Airlines, Colorado Rapids Youth Soccer Club, group travel mistake 611

Death of democracy redux?

TweetShareShareI’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...

February 5, 2020 toddneff #deathofdemocracy 565
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It's not easy turning a serious environmental story into a light read, but @mboothdenver has managed it: Colorado’s tire dumps were supposed to be gone by now. They grew instead. https://coloradosun.com/2021/01/19/colorado-tire-pile-fire-recycling-solar-oil/ @ColoradoSun

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Opinion | George Conway: What I really believe https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/01/19/george-conway-what-i-really-believe/?tid=ss_tw

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Rather than highlighting the 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach #Trump, the emphasis should be on the 197 who didn't see inciting an insurrection and the storming the heart of American democracy as sufficiently serious to sway them. #cowards

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