January 4 – 8, 2016 Three of this week’s five days have been devoted to issues specific to ladies and high time too after all those many, many penis posts. Jennifer’s sustained rant against peri-menopause, let alone menopause (reminding me of a sign on my agent’s wall, I’m Out of Estrogen and I Have a […]
Michael: Hi Ann! After six years of teaching in NYU’s science journalism program (SHERP), and a year before that teaching at Boston University, I have decided to take a break and hand over my beginning writing, research and reporting class to someone else. What a tough decision. I love my students–so many of whom have […]
I don’t think much about the climate debates; the problem seems so multivariate, and each part of it so difficult, I don’t see a solution. Accordingly, I really appreciate the people who do think about and cover it because goddam, it really needs covering. Anyway, when I read about the Paris agreement, I was most struck […]
December 7 – 11, 2015 The week begins on a dark note. Bad things are governed by quantum entanglement, I maintain: one bad thing can set up a force field, out of which spring subsequent bad things. Update: the washing machine is making screaming sounds and the laptop’s cursor works intermittently. The dark note gets […]
My husband had surgery and complications and is recovering slowly, entailing a lot of medical appointments and difficult information and difficult decisions and long absences from home and office. Home and office have taken advantage of this to do bad things. You might think this increase in badness is due to psychology or coincidence; it’s […]
Nov. 23 – 27, 2015 The week begins with a polite, controlled rant about obvious income inequality and COME THE REVOLUTION THE POOR WON’T BE DIRT-POOR OR THE RICH FILTHY-RICH EVER AGAIN. Meanwhile, Cameron’s fretting because she’s going snow camping and can’t take along any pumpkin pie which is ancient, has political overtones, and is […]
I grew up in rural and small-town midwest. Some people were richer than we were, some poorer. And being normal, hierarchizing humans, we always knew who was rich and who was poor. But regardless everybody went to the same grocery stores, schools, churches, dime stores, movie theaters, summer concerts. In other words, nobody was so […]
Sally says the big breakthrough in hyper super fast electronics is not silicon, not graphene, but the black gunk that collects in your septic system pipes. At least there’d be plenty of it. Erik says the hardest of the hardest-core people are not the mountain climbers or the trekkers on the Inca trail, but the […]
