All the Swedish things you can find in Berkeley, California: 1. Bokmärken: Bokmärken are little pictures that little kids collect. They're like stickers, without the sticky part on the back. They can be flowers, or maybe toys, animals, angels, and during Christmas you can get Santa Claus ones. If you're lucky, you can find glitter… Continue reading Sweden in Berkeley
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Behind-the-scenes: animation
In June or July, I finished up an animation called "The tale of the Bristlecone pine." It's three minutes long, and it's about drought and tree rings. Someone asked, 'how do you make all the 3D landscapes?" So I thought I'd give a behind-the-scenes tour! First, I use a free, open-source software called Blender3D, which… Continue reading Behind-the-scenes: animation
Eighth piece for WIRED
I wrote about a meteor camera network that NASA uses to track fireballs through the heavens. Those cameras will see lots of meteors on the night of the Perseid showers. It was a quick story, and what I liked was I got to interview people from North Carolina. I was looking at the map of… Continue reading Eighth piece for WIRED
Places to visit in Berkeley
1. Climb the hill to the Lawrence Hall of Science. This hill is shrouded in forest, and lanes criss-cross them here and there, lined with fancy houses. It's to the east of Berkeley. One Sunday afternoon, I followed the labyrinth of streets all the way to the top. It is pretty steep, but not too… Continue reading Places to visit in Berkeley
My favorite article for WIRED
My favorite article I wrote was about a group of American Indians called Karuk who live in North California. I liked this piece so much because it was like interviewing hero after hero. Not flashy heroes, just really good, dependable, wonderful heroes. Everyone had done so much reaching across aisles, and doing what was needed… Continue reading My favorite article for WIRED
A “honey-do” list
I am recalling a Lyft driver I had in North Carolina once. He was a retired man from South Carolina, and he didn't volunteer information, just answered all my questions in that southern twang that you don't get to hear in California. He said that after he retired, his "honey-do" list kept getting longer and… Continue reading A “honey-do” list
Need inspiration?
Today, I heard a speaker who had some soaring words for us. She said: Walk towards the things that makes time stop for you; that make you light up; that you can't be pulled away from. Well, I wanted to sit down and tell her all the times I'd tried to walk towards just exactly… Continue reading Need inspiration?
Kofi Annan
I'm so sorry about this. I was just re-reading my last blog post, and I realized I had mentioned Kofi Annan (he was always Mr. A to me) in it. Pretty much the main reason I remember that 4Tech episode from Ghana is because Mr. A was from Ghana. I wrote about Mr. A in… Continue reading Kofi Annan
Interviewing Arabs
It's my last few days here, and I'm interviewing Arabs. I'd had the idea for a while - to write a story about a science and technology show that airs on the BBC Arabic. It's called 4 Tech, and I've watched it a whole bunch, and I think I probably blogged about it some, back… Continue reading Interviewing Arabs
Fifth article for WIRED
I published 3 articles within 8 days! But there are two extra weeks you should count at the beginning when I was working on them and didn't publish anything. One was about air pollution in a mostly Black neighborhood in Maryland. Oh yeah, I mentioned that here before. It's the one I did the GIS… Continue reading Fifth article for WIRED
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