by brenda | Aug 23, 2018 | About Writing, Futurist Posts, News, Personal, Politics
This post is a lightly-edited version of one that went out in my newsletter. If you like it, please consider signing up. I send out about ten newsletters a year. They include posts like this, reading recommendations, and sometimes some of my writing. My son just...
by brenda | May 9, 2017 | Futurist Posts, Reading Recommendations
Jane Mayer’s Dark Money uses our recent political past to illuminate the off-kilter present. Reading it made made me very angry. While our country has never been perfect, fair, or completely free of the influence of the rich, the events described in this book...
by brenda | Apr 25, 2017 | About Writing, Essays, Futurist Posts, Global Warming, Travel
I am writing this from a coffee shop in DC. One of the reasons I came here at this time was to participate in the March for Science right here in the capital. The March I ran into three friends, fellow writer Brenda Clough and her husband Larry Clough, and another...
by brenda | Aug 8, 2016 | Backing Into Eden, Futurist Posts, Global Warming, Reading Recommendations
E. O. Wilson’s Half Earth: Our Planet’s Fight for Life is one of the best books I’ve read on the future of Earth. He states the problem clearly….after beginning with an apt description of what we (mankind) are like and then stating that we have...
by brenda | Oct 31, 2015 | Futurist Posts, News, Personal, Travel
I’m currently at the 100 Year Starship Symposium. This symposium was started by DARPA and is now run by Mae Jemison, who was the first black female astronaut to go into space. At the moment, I’m hearing about the 1400 planets that have been found....
by brenda | Jul 24, 2015 | Futurist Posts, Reading Recommendations
I’m currently at the the World Future Society meeting in San Francisco, and one of the highlights will be getting to ask science fiction author Ramez Naam some questions tomorrow afternoon. I just finished the last book in his trilogy (Nexus, Crux, and Apex) on...