This post originally ran on April 23, 2015. But people are still developing maggot infestations. Yes, even here in the US. So it’s still relevant. Read on and be disgusted all over again. I’m not the kind of girl who ordinarily irons her underwear. But two weeks ago I found myself hunched over a flimsy wooden […]
Miscellaneous
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 […]
For the past two years, I have been following the voyage of OSIRIS-REx, a spacecraft headed to an asteroid called Bennu. Bennu is important for at least four reasons: Local space history may recorded in its rocks, which are about as old as the formation of the solar system. It is carbon-rich and scientists think […]
Read Part 1 of this story Eventually, Milon Tusk escaped the smart home of the unhappily deceased Dieter Peel. This process had not been straightforward. Everything inside the fortified compound was voice-controlled, including windows and doors. He had tried imitating Peel’s voice, jimmying the locks, and at one low point, throwing a chair at the […]
This post is now over two years old but the channel is still active and the conversation about surveillance hasn’t gone away (understatement of the year?). I no longer live in New York City, but I’m still watching you, New Yorkers. __ I recently wrote a story for The Atlantic about a question that I […]
August 20-24, 2018 Remember last year when, for a moment, we took a break from earthly concerns and looked up at the sky? Helen returns to her eclipse post from last year, written from the backseat of a car during the I-95 traffic jam. The sun’s last rays shone bright, then winked out, and there […]
Summer’s been long and hot. Usually, I’m still enjoying it by August, but this time, winter is looking sweeter than ever. This post originally ran in January 27, 2015, and is about being colder than I ever had before, and about a time North America was colder than it had been in thousands of […]
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. […]
