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Fire and Water…Musings on Climate and Governance

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...

Reading Recommendation: Dark Money, by Jane Mayer

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...

The Importance of Science to SF

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...

Reading Recommendation: Half-Earth: Our Planet’s Fight for Life

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...

100 Year StarShip: Space for all of us

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....

Reading Recommendation: Apex, by Ramez Naam

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...
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March 21, 2021

Join me at the Stonecoast Alumni reading in just over two hours. Here's a YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkQvbDGtpkQ

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OKnoxOlivier Knox@OKnox·
January 20, 2021

Amanda Gorman, speaking now, when I asked her for her first political memory:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/01/20/daily-202-susan-rice-plans-put-racial-equity-heart-biden-agenda/

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LesdogggLeslie Jones 🦋@Lesdoggg·
January 16, 2021

Don’t know who this dude is but he broke that shit DOWN!! Listen especially the ones that need to hear it!!

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