Bursting the Bubble – Houston Press In 1978, although he was not quite eight years old, David had realized his life would be lonely, dull and short. His helplessness enraged him. Before he was born, his body had been donated to science.
Category Archives: serious stuff
Where plastic goes to die
Wednesday, May 23, 2007
Our oceans are turning into plastic…are we? He had the time and the curiosity to try a new route, one that would lead the vessel through the eastern corner of a 10-million-square-mile oval known as the North Pacific subtropical gyre. […] It began with a line of plastic bags ghosting the surface, followed by an […]
Engineering as it should be done
Saturday, April 21, 2007
THE FIFTY-NINE-STORY CRISIS What’s an engineer’s worst nightmare? To realize that the supports he designed for a skyscraper like Citicorp Center are flawed–and hurricane season is approaching. So he fixed it.
Elliott Leyton on Virginia Tech
Thursday, April 19, 2007
globeandmail.com: School shootings By the way, the 800,000 tutsi and hutu victims of the genocide in Rwanda were killed primarily with knives and machetes. And if you want to kill a lot of people but don’t have a gun, there are many other ways to do it: derail a train, start a fire, drive a […]
