I teach a narrative nonfiction class at the University of Colorado; a student did an good piece on water waste through sprinkling sidewalks and soaking common common greens to bogginess. Curious about the energy of water usage, I did some hunting around and found a reference to the kilowatt hours per acre foot of water provided…

Expedia sounds Latin, really, so I thought I'd match it up with some other Latin words so I could share some insights, as a disgruntled customer, more widely than Expedia might prefer. Expedia, the travel web site, is to thank for my unplanned overnight stay in Kansas City, which is, checking Google Maps on my phone,…