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25 Mar 2010

I live near the Pacific, along highway 1, which winds along the length of California (mostly). Two days ago I was riding my bicycle along a coastal path around noon, when coming around a curve in the

25 Feb 2010

Salon ran a very insightful article on the rise of the new yippies on the right: Glenn Beck is the new Abbie Hoffman. It’s very prescient. The author suggests that like the radical yippies in the

24 Feb 2010

I don’t care what you say, the World Weekly News was an awesome publication. Like the Men in Black said, you get to hear about alien landings months in advance of any other source. I subscribed to

11 Dec 2009

Anne Herbert was a gifted writer who edited CoEvolution Quarterly (the periodic magazine of the Whole Earth Catalog) before I did in the early 1980s. We never worked together, or were close friends,

7 Oct 2009

The other day I got a note from a Danish guy who is a fan of my book OUT OF CONTROL. He found my ideas great but my presentation “frustrating.” But unlike my other “frustrated” readers,

29 Sep 2009

Besides the canonical Bristlecone Pine, there are many other organism on earth that will outlive you. Photographer Rachel Sussman has been traveling around the world to find and photograph them.

8 Sep 2009

Ben Fy has visualized the evolution of Darwin’s text as he edited and updated his On the Origin of Species.  Fry says: We often think of scientific ideas, such as Darwin’s theory of evolution,

28 Aug 2009

I thought there was some truth in this Venn diagram of behavioral disorders and social media.  You can get the diagram on a T-shirt.

29 Jul 2009

If a million monkeys typing can write Hamlet, can a million tourists’ snapshots map out a 3D picture of Rome? The answer is yes. And Venice, too. There are more than 2 million photos on Flickr

25 Jul 2009

John Baez has written a Very Short History of the Planet Earth. He says, “The Earth has survived some remarkable disasters. To keep our tale brief, let us focus on four: the Big Splat about 4.55