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...
A litmus test for parents of would-be pro athletes
"\"TweetShareShareI 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...
One story, two stories: the fictions of Fox News
"\"TweetShareShareWhat 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....
How to justify spending three grand over four days
"\"TweetShareShareI sat at my desk in Denver on a recent October night faced with a question: does it make sense to spend three grand over four days? On the surface, it made no sense, given that we as a family generally run a slight but very real...
Impeach Trump: what’s the downside, really?
"\"TweetShareSharePeople who despise Trump will continue to despise Trump.\\nPeople who somehow don\\u2019t despise Trump will continue to somehow not despise...
What you can learn from Michael Avenatti
"\"TweetShareShareIf she’s going to do the story with or without you, and you’re not going to look good either way, you’re better off talking to the...
A Q&A with Velodyne
"\"TweetShareShareI wrote quite a bit about Velodyne in The Laser That’s Changing the World — David Hall, the company’s founder and CEO, is a brilliant engineer who developed the lidar sensor that paved they way for the first...
This is in 1/210,100th of the sky
"\"TweetShareShareWith the Hubble Legacy Field, what it doesn’t capture is as remarkable as what it...
Good times at ILMF 2019
"\"TweetShareShareThe 2019 edition of the International Lidar Mapping Forum is a wrap. The folks at Diversified Communications provided a booth (thank you!), which gave me the opportunity to hang out and chat with a bunch of interesting folks for...
Elon Musk is right: lidar is a crutch
"TweetShareShareElon Musk was right when he called lidar a \u201ccrutch\u201d when it came to self-driving cars. Where he\u2019s not right, though, is that the technology\u2019s crutchitude is somehow a reason not to employ lidar\u2014which uses l...
At ILMF 2019, a mobile lidar story about Afghanistan 2003
"\"TweetShareShareI\\u2019m at the International Lidar Mapping Forum in Denver for the third-straight year. The first year, I came to get some sense of the lidar landscape for a book project I was thinking about proposing. That experience...
GEDI is on the ISS (“May the forest be with it”)
"\"TweetShareShareI’m a little late on this (thanks to Eric Desfonds of Excelitas for the reminder this morning), but GEDI launched on Wednesday, Dec. 5, on a SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket. It’s being integrated on the International Space...