This was fun to report. A short article, called “Lucky Star,” is out in the new California magazine about astronomer Maryam Modjaz and her work documenting a supernova. The twist was that, through a bit of good luck, she and her colleagues had telescopes pointed at it the whole time–before it even exploded. In the [...]
Dwell Magazine’s October issue is out, and it includes an essay, entitled “Western Promises,” that I wrote about my reporting on the Huangbaiyu Cradle to Cradle Village project. Huangbaiyu, a small village in northeast China, set to become a leading example of the power of green design in a country that desperately needs it. The [...]
“Crunch!”? Really? A huge cargo ship bumps into the Bay Bridge and spills 58,000 gallons of bunker fuel–not just oil, but bunker fuel–and this is the Chronicle’s headline? Is it supposed to be a joke? When I looked at my copy this morning, I originally thought this was a feature recapping some little disaster that I [...]
My friend and former colleague Pat Joseph has an article in the latest Virginia Quarterly Review. It’s about the boom (and recent bust) in soy farming in the interior of Brazil. Well written, all round, but one section I especially liked was about the Brazilian sense that the Americans need not tell them how to [...]
Photomontage from the New York Times Magazine by Horacio Salinas This has been a busy fall. Fortunately, I have a few things to show for it. One published clip, for example.* It’s in this weekend’s New York Times Magazine (December 10, 2006), the “Ideas Issue.” It’s a short little idea entitled “Sailing an Oil Tanker,” [...]
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