Don’t wear a mask. This is about freedom.
"\"TweetShareShareSure, I\\u2019ll 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...
Coronavirus in the air: what we know; what can help
"TweetShareShareJust because it doesn\u2019t look dirty doesn\u2019t mean it\u2019s clean. That\u2019s always been true, of course. But the coronavirus pandemic is reinforcing this lesson in unspeakably tragic ways. A gleaming doorknob could well ...
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\\u2019s worth of PET water bottles. But Covid-19 is extremely serious, and it\\u2019s serious...
A chaperoning hellscape, courtesy of American Airlines
"\"TweetShareShareA buddy and I \\u2013 two dads on either side of 50 \\u2013 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...
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...