The path of least resistance is not always the most interesting.
The in-laws are Winter Texans, as this particular species of snowbird calls itself. So every year or two, we trek down to South Padre Island and spend a week on this strip of sand. I tell my daughters it will be gone by the time…
I'm on the Asahi Glass Foundation mailing list. Despite being made of glass, this is a serious foundation, most famous for its annual bestowing of the Blue Planet Prize.
When I say mailing list, I mean this literally -- you get paper-based mail. The interesting thing that, despite being based in Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, my mail from…
Lily and Maya with their snorkeling instructor this afternoon at Denver Divers.
Occasionally the full ridiculousness of modern, rich-country existence slaps you square on the cheek. It should happen more often. This morning, I was washing off fresh raspberries when I told Maya, 8, "You know, this is kind of miraculous. It's two degrees Fahrenheit outside…
Aggressive climate action ASAP (left figure) minimizes future warming. Inaction (right figure) results in catastrophic levels of warming, 9°F over much of U.S. (Via ClimateProgress, IPCC)
If the Intergovenmental Panel on Climate Change's fifth assessment report didn't scare you, a study in the journal Nature should do the trick. It may have a dull title ("The projected timing of climate…
Al Bartlett in January 2005. Photo by Marty Caivano/Daily Camera
Al Bartlett, Boulder physics professor emeritus who dedicated his post-retirement career to preserving Boulder and trying to get people not as smart as him (which was pretty much everybody) to understand the exponential function and its environmental and social impacts, died over the weekend. Brittany Anas,…