Sci/Math/Prog Summary: August 2017
Random list of interesting stuff this month: * Some progress on gene editing (!) * A very well-preserved dinosaur * A profile of the old people steering old space probes. * This is one of those h…
Media Summary: July 2017
Some interesting links from the last month: * “Adam’s Calendar”: could be the world’s oldest megalithic site (so, what’s not to like?) * An interesting intersection of H. P. Lovecraft and J. G. Bal…
Monthly recap (July 2017)
Highlight: I’d got tickets for the Monterey Bay Aquarium back in December, but finally went this weekend, at the end of July. Visiting after three years, and my favorites are always the jellyfish and…
Sci/Math/Prog summary: July 2017
Random list of interesting stuff this month: * The Lyft bus announcement led to some hand-wringing. * I knew there were rivers that flow under the land; apparently some flow under the sea too. * I…
Media Summary: June 2017
Random stuff from last month: * An article in The Nation tries to find roots of ”post-truth” a few decades ago. * The Guardian voices skepticism on ”crypto-anarchy”. * The wonderful Maria Popova b…
Monthly recap (June 2017)
Big highlight: Tara’s cousins were visiting. We went to San Francisco over a weekend, then drove further up north to a small beach town near Bodega Bay (my second good AirBnB experience; slightly les…
Media Summary: May 2017
Random stuff from last month: * The SpaceX launch happened * There was this thing called the “Fyre Festival” which imploded and yielded immense parody (a leaked pitch deck featured tons of groan-wo…
Monthly recap (May 2017)
Big highlight: finally finished the 1000-piece puzzle I had been working on (will share a full album later). Sold my 7-year old second-hand Civic and bought a new Subaru Outback (so we can finally ta…
Media Summary: April 2016
* There are such things as Paleoburrows, dug by “mega fauna” in the past. “So if a 90-pound animal living today digs a 16-inch by 20-foot borrow, what would dig one five feet wide and 250 feet long?…
Monthly recap: April 2016
* Big highlight: our trip to Japan (will have to write a separate post on this!) * Tara started some swimming (well, no: the two of us went into a pool twice … but it’s still something) * Attemptin…
Media Summary: March 2017
Random stuff read online last month: * The story of the guys who created Superman (Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster) is … dramatic (also, Superman as initially conceived, was actually a villain). * The…
Monthly recap: March 2016
A few miscellaneous highlights: * Prepared for a trip to Japan (more on that later) — very smooth application process. * Jogged on a treadmill for the first time in five months. * Took Tara for he…