The Price of Doing Nothing
We are living in a climate emergency, one of our own making. Since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, when the use of coal in energy production and manufacturing took […]
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The Road Well Traveled, Part I
This is the first entry in a series of posts that will discuss some of our vacations over the last few years. How those travels have personally shaped my views […]
The Great American Eclipse: Part III — Totality
It has been five days now, just over 120 hours, since Totality slid across the United States of America. Since a Total Solar Eclipse travelled coast to coast from Oregon […]
One Small Sentence, One Vital Task
“The search for life’s origins, evolution, distribution, and future in the universe.” One phrase, a small group of words forming a short sentence in a 58 page bill. Yet that […]
We Need a Moonshot
I was born just a few months after the return of the last human crewed Earth mission to the Moon. Apollo 17 launched on December 7, 1972, it’s lunar module […]
Good Reads, 2016 Edition
This is a little late, but figured I’d still push this out. 2016 was a fascinating year in many ways, most of which I’d rather not rehash right now. For […]
A Cosmic Influence
Twenty years ago today, Carl Sagan passed away from a cancer-related blood disease, myelodysplasia. If you know ANYTHING about twentieth century astrophysics, you know who Dr. Sagan was and what […]
To Boldly Go…Part I
“Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its continuing mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly […]
The Cost of Human Supremacy
We are not the supreme species on planet Earth, not by a long shot. From a geological timespan point of view, we are relative newcomers. Less than 3 million years […]
Threat Multiplier — Climate Change
Finishing up Episode 6 of Season 6 of The Walking Dead right now, then plan on tuning into the Democratic Debate out of Flint MI tonight. I know much of […]