It's been fun people-watching all the tourists around San Francisco. There's not many around WIRED's office in the financial district, but once you go towards the wharf and the water and the Golden Gate Bridge, they're everywhere. I think the most I've seen is Germans. Sometimes you're walking along, and you just go from one… Continue reading All the tourists in San Francisco
Author: mh
Light in Berkeley
I will miss walking between the train station and my apartment, both in the mornings and in the evenings, and catching glimpses of the hills where I can see further between the trees. Even when it's not yet evening, and there's no lights on them, they still seem to twinkle at me through sloping sunlight… Continue reading Light in Berkeley
Making maps
I had to verify a fact for my article I'm working on now. It's about a bunch of polluting power plants being built in a neighborhood in Maryland where mostly Black people live. Having lived in Maryland, I can tell you that this is exactly the sort of thing that Maryland would do. What the… Continue reading Making maps
Tigris and Euphrates
It had been a secret desire of mine to publish a scientific paper in a real journal since fall, 2008, based on a chance, smug comment from someone icky. Too bad that was the source of my inspiration. The fact that I didn't publish such a paper remained a source of angst (#FirstWorldProblems) until it… Continue reading Tigris and Euphrates
Third article for WIRED
This article was going to be a triumph for me, for many different reasons. First, because it was about Sweden, pretty much. Second, because all the instagram/twitter/blog/facebook stalking I've done over the years came into handy. No one can say all of that was a waste of time any more. I went from a random… Continue reading Third article for WIRED
Second article for WIRED
I wrote about people taking trains, instead of planes, to lower their carbon emissions. I try to do the same thing whenever possible. Last year, I went to a conference in Boston, and I took a bus and overnight train from North Carolina; and I also went to New Orleans for another conference, this time… Continue reading Second article for WIRED
Smarmy in the interview
I was interviewing these people. I should have known they would turn out to be annoying because they were the only ones who had a secretary set the call up. And they're honestly not such important people anyways. Now you know where administrator fees go at a public university! They had an edge in their… Continue reading Smarmy in the interview
Adam and Eve
I've been working on an animation of the bristlecone pine. I named the two trees Adam and Eve. The animation is almost done - I am going to try to enter it into the Fredrikstad Animation Festival, just for fun. I entered this festival once before with the film "Who's cutting down Yusuf's trees?" but… Continue reading Adam and Eve
My first article
I feel a little unreasonably proud at the moment. I really wasn't expecting to, because this is simply not a story I think I would click on and bother to read even though I'm the one who wrote it: I was assigned to write this story. When stories like this pop up, I just think:… Continue reading My first article
Working on my first article
My inbox was not empty ... I had almost everyone respond to my requests for interviews. So I spoke with five people on the phone yesterday, sometimes back to back. The longest interview was 50 minutes. Since I am writing about a journal paper, that like I said seems quite easy to sensationalize, I can't… Continue reading Working on my first article
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