Category: Blog
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Introducing Climate Confidential
This week, Climate Confidential, a new reporting project from me and 5 of my favorite journalists is going live! Our team writes for big-name pubs like NYT, WSJ, Scientific American, The Economist, Wired, and Outside, and now we want to write for you.
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Questions for the CarterBot
A look at the future of human-robot interaction with nine-year-old Carter Bedford.
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Lift Labs, GrabIt, and Other Robot Startups — Robotics Business Review
A series of robotics startup profiles for Robotics Business Review.
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“Structured Comments” on the NYT
Nieman has a little post about the New York Times’ new approach to comments, which incorporates some structured discussion questions/prompts.
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Thanks for all the fish, 2012!
2012 was a year in motion. A look back at the destinations, modes of transportation, and achievements of the year.
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Midgley, Lead, and MoJo
A few years ago, I read a book that I couldn’t stop talking about: “Losing Our Cool,” by Stan Cox. One of the trivia items that stuck out for me was the story of Thomas Midgley.
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Old movies and the Internet
While I’m here in China, I’m cut off from my usual sources of legal streamed content. Thank goodness! I’ve rediscovered the amazingness of The Internet and the public domain.
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Well, now what? Adaptation, not mitigation, is the new climate story
In the last few months, I’m seeing a larger number of projects come my way with a decidedly different tone: It’s too late. Climate change is here, it’s real, and we’ve waited too long to address it.
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Share the Road, Jerks
I just stumbled on this post on GOOD, and I have terrible mixed feelings about it. Instead of teaching cyclists to “act like a car,” take up a lot of space and be rude to other road users, can’t we make sure everyone on the road is acting like a human?
Celeste LeCompte 