Wildfire converted me from a tree-hugger to a tree-worshiper.

Decades ago, when I was post-adolescent, I sent a poem and an angsty, neurotic letter to Allen Ginsberg.

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Some years ago, a friend married a woman who believed she had been abducted by aliens. Aware I was a skeptic, he asked me not to bring it up with her. Fine by m

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What we lose when we confuse social media with online community

Paulina Borsook revisits Cyberselfish on Plutopia, exploring Silicon Valley’s libertarian roots and the rise of tech billionaire power.

Jeff Jarvis explores how the Linotype helped launch mass media—and what its decline means for journalism, technology, and community.

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A Natural History of Empty Lots: Field Notes from Urban Edgelands, Back Alleys, and Other Wild Places - Kindle edition by Brown, Christopher. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading A Natural History of Empty Lots: Field Notes from Urban Edgelands, Back Alleys, and Other Wild Places.

John Trumbull's painting, Declaration of Independence, being presented to the Congress.

On the second night of the Republican gathering in Dallas, Vice President JD Vance was the headliner. But President Trump returned to center stage.

In the three decades since the mainstreaming of the Internet, we’ve seen acceleration of the fragmentation of media that began with cable television.

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Katsiaryna Bartko alleges life-sustaining medication was withheld from her in ICE custody, ratcheting up risk of hormone deficiency coma.

Participatory Medicine and AI for Health

The Society of Participatory Medicine hosts regular conferences throughout the year to help empower patients & healthcare professionals. March 20, 2025.

Another tribute, like Maher's, that drew negative attention was that of Ricky Schroder, who portrayed Parton's father in two biopic movies based on her childhood.

This video features the highlights from Plutopia 2010: The Science of Music, held on Monday, March 15, 2010 at the Mexican American Cultural Center in Austin, TX during SXSW Interactive. The event fea...

We never encounter reality without mediation: first our senses and memories interpret it, and now digital systems select and arrange much of what we learn about it.

Participatory medicine focuses on the e-patient—equipped, enabled, empowered, and engaged. Physicians and healthcare teams bring clinical expertise across a range of diseases and conditions, while pat...

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Do you wake up in the middle of a night with a sense of dread?

The president likes to boast about the “greatest economy we’ve ever had.” His record falls far short.

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Defense secretary said conditions on aircraft carrier deployed in support of Iran war have been ‘completely misrepresented’

In 2000, Paulina Borsook published a book foretelling the anti-government sentiments of the tech world. Now that it’s too late, people are ready to listen.

Leonie Tanczer on how smartphones, connected household devices, surveillance tools, location trackers and AI can be repurposed to facilitate domestic abuse.

Podcast Episode · Empathy Unbound: Embrace Your Superpower · August 4 · 53m

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(I wrote this several years ago; it was never published until now.)

Cannabis-related hospitalizations are climbing as more young Americans appear to be embracing it to cope how they perceive the state of the world.

President Trump’s Board of Peace announced an agreement last month that aimed at Hamas giving up its weapons alongside an Israeli withdrawal from Gaza.

In these highly-candid radio interviews, more than fifty legendary, larger-than-life personalities trade anecdotes about the Golden Age of science fiction. Ray Bradbury, Robert Bloch, Harlan Ellison, ...