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HomeTodd Neff

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 991

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...

December 12, 2019 toddneff #genius, #prosports, #youthsports 906

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....

December 7, 2019 toddneff #ABC, #CBS, #CNN, #FoxNews, #NBC, #newsbias, #NYT 2057

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...

October 23, 2019 toddneff #FinancialDecisions, #LifeDecisions, #SantaMonica, #Travel 1094

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...

September 25, 2019 toddneff #ImpeachTrump, #Trump 1472

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...

June 20, 2019 toddneff Michael Avenatti, PR strategy, Vanity Fair 1577

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...

May 23, 2019 toddneff autonomous vehicles, lidar, Velodyne 1497

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...

May 14, 2019 toddneff #HubbleLegacyField 1258

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...

January 31, 2019 toddneff ILMF, lidar, lidar history 1373

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...

January 31, 2019 toddneff autonomous vehicles, elon musk, lidar 1455

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...

January 29, 2019 toddneff 1164

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...

December 10, 2018 toddneff GEDI, Goddard Space Flight Center, International Space Station, ISS, lidar 1011
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1 Jul

I think the Big 10 and the SEC should merge into a megasuperconference called "Conference."

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Supreme Court Ruling Allows Public School Teachers To Lead Students In Crusades https://www.theonion.com/supreme-court-ruling-allows-public-school-teachers-to-l-1849119443?utm_medium=sharefromsite&utm_source=_twitter

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Indoor Cat Wouldn’t Last A Day In The High-Octane World Of Street Racing https://www.theonion.com/indoor-cat-wouldn-t-last-a-day-in-the-high-octane-world-1849015695?utm_medium=sharefromsite&utm_source=_twitter

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