Change, especially the kind that moves a civilization forward, requires easy access to knowledge and information. The Founding Fathers understood this. As exponents of the Enlightenment, they saw the availability of knowledge and information as a critical element of a thriving and prospering nation. [...]
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So, I’m driving home on Friday (the 16th) after mowing a friend’s lawn. My cell phone rings and I tap my earpiece to take the call. It was Denise, sounding worried. She was at her current favorite pond near Penitencia Creek doing nature photography and had noticed a young pied-billed grebe (Podilymbus podiceps) that had [...] One year ago I was laid off. What does a year or more of joblessness do to you? It messed with your mind, makes you confront what is important, and what isn’t. You also learn who is looking out for you, and who couldn’t give a [...] As we have come to expect, Maker Faire this past weekend was a feast for the inventive, the curious. I think we can now say without fear of contradiction that “Makers” are not merely a sub-category of geekdom, but a full-blown movement. This year’s theme was “Remaking America”, something I have advocated on the pages [...] Every age has its cadre of doom-sayers, partly because every age has its own brand of crisis that might look like the End of Days has come. The current recession (or proto-Depression, if you will), is prompting a lot of concern and rightly so. There are a lot of people out there who are losing [...] About a year or so ago I went to Washington,DC for the first time. It was business, and as such I only had a few hours to myself, but I had a hotel room within easy walking distance of the major landmarks. Mostly I wanted to see the Mall; the Washington Monument, the Lincoln Memorial, [...] My spouse Denise is an enthusiastic and skilled nature photographer. She does not do this for a living (although she probably could), but out of the pleasure it gives her to catch bits and pieces of the real world in her pictures. So, last month she was walking up to one of her usual haunts, [...] It is a commonly-held truism that technology is “neutral” and that it is the use we put it to that makes it good or bad. This ignores the reality that some technology is more accessible than others. Consider the printing press. A. J. Liebling’s famous quote from The New Yorker that “Freedom [...] Now that the “family values” wing in California has proposed a ballot initiative (Proposition Eight) for a constitutional amendment to prevent families consisting of gay couples, I thought this would be a good time to examine the alleged religious underpinnings of their anti-gay stance. What follows is an attempt to apply the tools of [...] |
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