Open Letters
Two of them, from Wendy Davis’s tragically abandoned daughters. As previously noted, the women of Texas are not to be messed with.
View ArticleMr. Fusion
The National Ignition Facility has, for the first time, generated more energy than it’s put in to a fusion reaction. The most critical part of the reaction, and one that had been a real concern for...
View ArticleArizona
Well thank god for small victories. Also, I’m sorry, but that photo of Governor Brewer is super scary.
View ArticleSXSW
I first went to Interactive in 2006, I saw Twitter’s launch (and thought, wow that will never work), and it’s really weird to me that it’s all now history.
View ArticleBetter Place
I remember reading the initial Wired article about Better Place and thinking, this could be amazing if they can pull it off and that’s a big if. $1 billion and a meager 1,400 cars later, it pretty...
View ArticleOcean Front Property
Kim Stanley Robinson called this one in Green Mars. …studies released this week are announcing a bleak future for the West Antarctic Ice Sheet — and an accompanying sea-level rise across the globe....
View ArticleTerror & Guns
Our lack of gun control policy, and blind compliance with a false interpretation of the second amendment is becoming a national point of shame. If a 22-year-old Muslim man stabbed his roommates to...
View ArticleAustin’s Problems
That liberal blue dot in the middle of Texas (that everyone wants to move to) is an inclusive and progressive place, right? Actually not so much, considering the African-American population of the city...
View ArticleThe Europe
For my Grandmother’s 90th birthday bash – being that she is was a medieval history major at Rice – she wanted to see ancient ruins. With her initial suggestion of Syria probably out, we made do with...
View ArticleCrows
I rode the North Table rim rock trail this weekend for the first time this summer. It’s a magnificent little 1.7 mile trail on the top of the mesa, a breezy little relief after you’ve busted your ass...
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