A bunch of things I loved in 2019 Millions of Stars in Omega Centauri: Fred Lehman (South Florida Dark Sky Observers) This is the time of year when we are all getting a little list fatigued or at least I am. This year, with the end of the decade in
The moral argument alone was not sufficient to carry the decision Winter, Zebegeny, Amrita Sher-Gil, 1939 I’ve been working on this lengthy article for the past few months off and on and pretty intensely during the past month and it is finally published, partially at least. It got so
An interview on what in the hell happened at COP25 Tiger in a Tropical Storm, Henri Rousseau, 1891 So last week I was talking about how climate change is this collective problem with collective solutions and how we have to make personal changes while also pushing for systemic changes. But
A different sort of guide to end of year giving Dante running from the three beasts, William Blake, 1824-27 So we have an international trip coming up fast which is going to vastly expand the household’s carbon footprint and I’m doing that thing right now where I tug
It must have been Thanksgiving Sanjay P. K., Cave painting at Petta-kere, South Sulawesi, Indonesia. Above is a photo of some of the oldest cave art ever found, maybe over 40,000 years old, from an island in Indonesia. When some research about it was published in 2014, I posted
It's the men that serve both god and devil that you have to fear Detail of an illustration from a prose adaptation of Pèlerinage de la vie humaine by Guillaume de Deguileville, late fifteenth or early sixteenth century. Via Rabih Alameddine. There is a lot of debate in
Things could go either way Rainy Day, Boston, 1885, Frederick Childe Hassam In 2017, a three-year campaign by housing justice advocates to curb Boston’s eviction crisis culminated with a tenant rights bill called the Jim Brooks Act being quietly shuffled into a corner of the legislature to die. It
Prepare to jump not knowing if there is any place to land Bullitt Center Stair, Peter Alfred Hess This week I was talking to some people for an article about the Living Building Challenge, specifically a new building in Atlanta that is seeking to qualify under this super-rigorous sustainability standard.
[Wind howling] Katsukawa Shunsho 勝川 春章, “The actors Ichikawa Danjuro V as a skeleton, spirit of the renegade monk…” 1783 This is the last Crisis Palace before Halloween so it will be a very special frightening edition a holiday spooktacular you might say. If you are faint of heart consider
Take a moment to appreciate that feeling of all the things working The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons, 16 October 1834, JM William Turner, 1835 There’s a fissure in the climate community around the extent to which racial and economic justice issues should be a driving
You turn the key, harm is being done. Red Cavalry, Kazimir Malevich, 1932 Earlier this year, two miles west of my house, a woman named Marilyn Wentworth was crossing the street to get a coffee at her favorite shop, a little family-owned place I go to all the time. As
It was 3,000 people arguing with 2 million people Entrance to a crypt, 40 feet underwater in the Swift River Valley. Photo by Ed Klekowski. This week I’m going to reach way back into the archives to share an article I wrote about the creation of the Quabbin