Yesterday, Workforce.com published a couple of stories I wrote about a persistent and difficult puzzle that confronts manufacturing in the United States: Factories are more productive than ever, but manufacturing jobs continue a steady decline. What can be done to get people back to work? […]
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Ecomagination has published my interview with Randy Olson, a most unusual kind of filmmaker. For the first half of his career, Olson pursued the career that is the dream of many a geeky adolescent: marine biologist. By the young age of 38 he actually achieved it. He earned a tenured professorship in marine biology at the University of New Hampshire. But upon achieving his dream he found it wasn’t quite a fit with his personality and aspirations. You see, Olson harbored another unrealistic fantasy, that of being a documentary filmmaker. He thought he could do both by working as a full-time academic and making movies on the side. But that’s before the scientific community met his plan with derision and scorn. […] It is July in Washington D.C., and my new lawn is scorching to death. Watering it seems unfair because the problem isn’t a lack of water: the problem is that the water is in the wrong place. The air has a lavish, abundant 86 percent water content that makes sweat burst from my brow when I open the door to get the mail. It just refuses to fall on my lawn. […] The piece, “Wilderness Calling,” is part of KQED’s Perspectives series, where regular people make their best case on a topic of the day. While some might question if I’m a regular person, I have formed an emphatic opinion about the growing use of cellphones in the great outdoors, based on a jarring experience I had in Yosemite National Park last summer. Listen to the whole thing below. […] Skeeter enjoys the mood lighting in her blinged-out terrarium. A few years ago, my friend Simon mail-ordered a Mexican fire leg tarantula. She arrived in a vial as a wee spiderling, but after several molts and a steady diet of crickets, she measures five and a half inches across. “Skeeter” lives in […] In the current issue of Sierra, I have a story about a new magazine called Meatpaper. This disturbing little publication got me thinking in an elliptical way about my girlfriend Anjali. Meatpaper is memorable because it pulls meat out of the context in which we’re accustomed to seeing it. There’s no guide to the […] |
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