global warming

By now you're aware that the Earth's atmosphere is heating at an alarming rate due to an excess of carbon dioxide, the byproduct of more or less every energy…

What if there were no cars? What if we'd invented the internal combustion engine, but then realized that it spewed too much toxic bullshit to put into regular…

One carbon atoms, two oxygens. A simple recipe. The sort that life seems to whip up a little too often, like mom's meatloaf, heavy, warm and dry. In fact,…

I hate being cold. You might surmise it reminds me too much of my childhood winters in Wisconsin. Back then my parents would snatch us from school and…

In his 1873 work Une Saison en Enfer (A Season in Hell), Arthur Rimbaud wrote "One must be absolutely modern." Rimbaud was one of those guys, restless,…

I'm a sweater. No. Not a cardigan, crew neck or crop top, a prolific perspirant, an excreter of egregious quantities of exercise-induced effluent. When the…

Here in the lazy week between Xmas and New Year's, we are stuck in a purgatorial pattern. There is no snow for skiing, not really, and yet the trails are…