Reading Recommendation: Dark Money, by Jane Mayer
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...The Importance of Science to SF
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...Reading Recommendation: Half-Earth: Our Planet’s Fight for Life
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...100 Year StarShip: Space for all of us
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....Reading Recommendation: Apex, by Ramez Naam
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...
So ever since I ordered it in NOVEMBER I have been looking forward to getting my Peloton bike. It’s supposed to come NEXT WEEK. They JUST texted me that there is a 6 WEEK delay. @onepeloton utter fail!!!!! Do I even want it for spring and summer? That’s when I ride outside!