I’m putting this blog up together with a BDN blog I did on evolution and synthetic biology in 2010, I could have sworn it was 2015 or...

This was a reflection on evolution that I wrote 15 years ago and posted on my BDN blog. It's the basis for a new blog reflecting on how...

This is a topic I’ve increasingly become involved with over the past few years. Geoengineering as popularly defined are attempts to do...

This is an earlier BDN post from 2016. I believe it still applies, perhaps more so than ever as TMFCICMF and the 'Musk'o'vites' seem to...

This is a topic I’ve increasingly become involved with over the past few years. I’ve taught a couple of Geoengineering courses at Colby...

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Exciting, I get to introduce a new partner: I was fooling around on my Dad’s old Ham Radio set, and not knowing a capacitor from a split...

Despite the fact that the planet just recorded it’s hottest January since human civilization developed the capacity to measure such...

With this title I hereby immunize myself against any criticism while I go on a political rant. After all, how many times has a politician...

This is a little piece I wrote years ago and posted on my BDN blog. As an undergraduate I had dreams of becoming an ornithologist or...

This is a word coined by my nephew during a high-stakes Scrabble match against his wife. Jed’s one of the most competent people I know,...

This is a Christmas poem I wrote, starting in the 2000's, at a verse or two a year it took nearly a decade. It aimed at a sense of...

This was one of the first BDN blogs I wrote, nearly 10 years ago! Weather is a fun topic, and often an important one. Wonderfully...

These days it seems pretty much everything is artificial intelligence (AI) this and AI that. Will AI take over the world and wipe-out...

A few years ago I started writing a blog, The Partial Observer, for the Bangor Daily News, the 2nd largest subscription newspaper in...