Reading James Baldwin
I decided to read James Baldwin. Everything he wrote, from start to finish. Even if it takes the rest of my life.
Category: Terry’s Reading Travels
Trumbo and Hollywood’s Romance With An All Male Mythology
It can be difficult for a feminist woman to look back at the sexism and gender inequality of history. It is even more difficult when one observes that history being told through the lens of […]
The “Folders” – Episode Two of My Afternoon at The Institute for Figuring with Margaret Wertheim and Other New Acquaintances
On first meeting, Margaret Wertheim impresses me as one who could keep a noncommittal face when confronted with surprising news – a demeanor useful to a poker player. Unlike can’t-keep-any-emotion-off-her-face me, who would make a […]
“Do You Fold?” – Episode One of My Afternoon at The Institute for Figuring in L.A. with Physicist Margaret Wertheim and Other New Acquaintances
And I was suddenly imagining all the deeply intricate origami folding I had once heard some scientist talk about – who remembers when – but he was referring to the fact that they had discovered if you wanted to make something so small that you could pack it up to fly into deep space in a very small spaceship, and then unfold itself when its time came, like when it landed on Mars or an asteroid or something.
On De-Celebrating Black Hat Hackers and Celebrating Graffiti Artists
Hi all – my blog is back up and carefully backed up so if any more infamous black hat hackers try to take it down, getting it back up won’t be such an issue. […]
On Space Cattle and Looking for the Origin of Life
Or, A Little Mars & Origins of Life History (and other related thoughts) Before Tackling Today’s Space Exploration Debates, Part IV Okay, so a couple of posts ago we left Stanley Miller and Harold Urey […]
How Many Times Did Life Begin? And How Many “Lives” Are There?
Or, A Little Mars & Origins of Life History (and other related thoughts) Before Tackling Today’s Space Exploration Debates, Part III A while back a college student mentee of mine asked me to join her […]
Writing Out Loud About The Search for Life in Space Exploration
Or, A Little Mars & Origins of Life History Before Tackling Today’s Space Exploration Debates, Part II One of the exciting things about blogs is the fact that we can update them with new information, […]
How Sixto Rodriguez’s Searching for Sugarman Led Me To an Amazing Personal Lecture by a Space Scientist About the Search for Life
Or, A Little Mars & Origins of Life History Before Tackling Today’s Space Exploration Debates, Part I In my post before last I mentioned I’d share some Mars exploration history before moving on to Mars […]
Earth Protection P.S.
Coincidentally, immediately after my last post – making reference to the importance of Earth protection and our meager atmospheric protective shield, I learned that a Riley Duren would be speaking at JPL on Feb […]