by crissly | Aug 19, 2019 | Science, Science / Environment
During the 2018 hurricane season, when a big one was bearing down on the Gulf or Atlantic coasts and most people were trying to get out of the storm’s path, Jonathan Pruitt was fighting to catch the last flight in. Once on the ground he rented a Nissan Titan or a Ford...
by crissly | Aug 18, 2019 | Culture, Culture / Digital Culture
The last week of internet madness started, of course, with the death of Jeffrey Epstein, and the numerous resultant conspiracy theories that followed—including one shared on Twitter by the President of the United States. Of course, it didn’t help that Epstein...
by crissly | Aug 17, 2019 | Photo
Much of how the Sun works remains a mystery: It has its own weather cycles, which we are just beginning to understand, for starters, and scientists are unsure how the solar wind—a major component in solar weather—exactly works. Good thing NASA recently launched a...
by crissly | Aug 16, 2019 | Culture, Products / Augmented and Virtual Reality
Thanks to a hot desert air mass stalling over San Francisco, the sky was a fogless blue, which made the words stand out even more as they floated upwards past St. Patrick Church in downtown San Francisco. White and uppercase, they rose in perfectly justified blocks,...
by crissly | Aug 16, 2019 | Ideas
When I’m having a bout of anxiety, or even just an avoidant feeling (that is probably the precursor to a bout of anxiety), I pull out my phone to distract myself. In bed, when I can’t sleep (which is often) I scroll through Instagram. In the morning, to stave off...
