An electron microscope image from the first U.S. case of COVID-19. Those spherical viruses could well linger in the air. (courtesy CDC)
Just 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…
My beat-up copy of Al Bartlett's "The Essential Exponential"
I 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 something Al Bartlett told me 15 years ago…
If 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 reporter.
A lidar image of the Borrego Fault in Baja California, Mexico, courtesy of the University of California, Davis
Eva Botkin-Kowacki's excellent big-picture story on lidar is out today in the Christian Science Monitor. In her reporting, she came across "The Laser That's Changing the World" and, from there, me.
It's an interesting thing, as a journalist, to…
Simone Giertz with a few of her creations
Note: I've been writing Medium.com posts in the lead-up to the second-annual Brain Bar Budapest this June (did the same last year). If you're in the neighborhood, this year's lineup is awesome.
Comedy comes in lots of flavors — anecdotal, improvisational, insult, deadpan, sketch, satire, physical, and so on. Simone Giertz,…