I just read the most amazing book, Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto by Stewart Brand. Truly one of the most eye-opening things I’ve read in a while. He gleefully points out that our partisan loyalties of various kinds make us quite blind to what’s really going on around us. The earth and society [...]
Last night we went and saw Avatar. This is the most beautiful movie any of us have seen in ages; it’s a completely magical experience. The creation of a world so gorgeous and inviting even as it is dangerous sucks one in. It’s like one of those BBC nature documentaries but about something much better. Even [...]
Ever since I was a kid I’ve always enjoyed watching airplane takeoffs. The 787 has been of double interest to me in this respect. Technically this is as much a leap forward as the 707 and the 747 were – where they brought routine jet travel and the widebody long distance aircraft to the market, the [...]