One morning in my usual small coffee shop with the usual people, a young woman walks in, long straight hair of varying colors, flannel shirt, ill-advised leggings, you know the look. An old guy at the table of regulars – the regulars tend to have been living in the neighborhood for generations – says to […]
“Pop phys,” I assume, means popular physics. And as someone who encounters physics in her writing, I have to say, AG is onto a big, big problem here, the Explanations of Physicists. My late husband was a physicist, and his explanations to me went on for what seemed like hours and always ended with, “Your […]
I’ve been talking to Richard Garwin recently and thought I’d run this again. The original had an update, not included here, that read: This post originally said the document on the computer screen is classified, and though it once was, it certainly no longer is. No one who knows Garwin would think he’d allow the […]
AG’s giving Dickens a happy ending here. The cartoon’s secret mouseover says to consult paragraph 1, chapter 3, of Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities. In that chapter, a banker is on his way to a mysterious meeting in which he’s to learn who was buried, how that person came back to life, and […]
August 27 – 31, 2018, the week in which “regolith” appears not once but twice. The People of LWON, bug-lovers every one of them, are nevertheless united in their loathing of sprickets. They share their feelings but have murder on their minds. Rose doesn’t live in NYC any more bet when she did, she calmed […]
August 13 – 17, 2018 Except for Cameron, beginning and ending the week with sweet cheer, LWON seems to be having trouble getting through it all ok. Cameron grows zucchini and like anyone else who does, knows she need friends. And friends aren’t necessarily those guys on social media, they’re the guys who take zucchini. […]
July 23 – 27, 2018 Oh my goodness gracious sakes alive and it’s Snark Week, LWON’s answer to the blithering obviousness of Shark Week, We bring you the creatures that are infinitely more likely to do you wrong. Erik warns you about the burrowing owl, a creature of a vast underground crime syndicate who decorates […]
July 2 – 6, 2018 I start the week with a bad thought: the part of your mind that’s the general contractor, the project manager, the executive? It’s good at making decisions, not so good at knowing when the poor idiot carrying them out is splatted on the ground weeping. On a stormy night, Jessa […]