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...