Julie Cart is a terrific, award-winning environmental reporter, whose work I have been reading and admiring for many years in the Los Angeles Times. Today she tells, on the front page, the story of her father's secret life as a project manager in a top secret surveillance satellite system. But there's more, and it's mostlyContinue reading “A great reporter tells her father’s story on the front page”
Author Archives: Kit Stolz
Did Truman Capote set off the breast implant craze?
From George Plimpton's vastly engaging oral biography Truman Capote: In which various friends, enemies, acquaintances, and detractors recall his turbulent career. In this interview, Maria Theresa Caen, married to the famous wit and columnist Herb Caen, recounts how in the 60's she and Herb took Truman Capote to the first legal topless bar in SanContinue reading “Did Truman Capote set off the breast implant craze?”
Extreme temperatures shock climatologists Hansen, Mann
Michael Mann is a climatologist famous for bringing together a complete chronology of warming over the last 1000 years, using both instrumental records and historical proxies. Everyone has seen his "hockey stick" chart, though not all have been able to face the facts. The attacks motivated Mann to write a fierce response, called The HockeyContinue reading “Extreme temperatures shock climatologists Hansen, Mann”
A great recipe, thirty-five years later: Gypsy Soup
They say a classic is revealed through its ability to stand the test of time. Well, this recipe came out in the original Moosewood cookbook/restaurant in l977, some thirty-five years ago. Yet to me it's new, because I "discovered" it this year, while looking for inexpensive but hearty vegetarian dishes. Better late than never. And,Continue reading “A great recipe, thirty-five years later: Gypsy Soup”
Arguing in the Senate over global warming: Good times!
Best coverage of a Senate hearing on the subject of global warming yesterday goes to a post at Science magazine's Insider blog, which also links to Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders epic (forty-minute) take down of Oklahoma senator Inhofe, for his absurd "global warming is a hoax" claim. The real news is that Senate Democrats haveContinue reading “Arguing in the Senate over global warming: Good times!”
New study reconfirms warming, makes papers b/f review
With publication of a column in the NYTimes over the weekend, the "cantankerous" former skeptic on seriousness of climate change, physicist Richard Muller, announced his team at Berkeley Earth's latest findings. Here's the central graph, correlating greenhouse gas emissions to the rise in temps: Muller writes: "The historic temperature pattern we observed has abrupt dipsContinue reading “New study reconfirms warming, makes papers b/f review”
Climate change apologist calls for a hotter planet
It's hard to keep up with the latest in climate change denial: it's just so far out. Last week Paul MacRae, a pro-climate change author associated with climate change denier central, Watts Up With That, boldly called for more planetary warming. No, really. Specifically, he sees the goodness of a time when CO2 levels in the atmosphereContinue reading “Climate change apologist calls for a hotter planet”
Will 21st century be the end for professional writers?
According to a fed-up journalist Ewan Morrison, writing in the Toronto's respected Globe and Mail newspaper, even well-established authors such as himself are working essentially for nothing now. The economic trajectory of writing today is “a classic race to the bottom,” according to Morrison, who has become a leading voice of the growing counter-revolution –Continue reading “Will 21st century be the end for professional writers?”
Stoneface: or, the comedy of dignity, by Buster Keaton
Sacred Fools is a little theater in Hollywood with a big hit: Stoneface: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Buster Keaton. Wonderful to see the spirit of Keaton brought back to life in the 21st century. Critics and audiences both love this show, and that too is wonderful to see — a truly delightfulContinue reading “Stoneface: or, the comedy of dignity, by Buster Keaton”
These are not your grandfather’s thunderstorms: Masters
For over a decade climatologists have been saying, and I have been reporting, that we will be seeing more extremes in weather. This goes unnoticed in the here and now of daily reporting, but it's true. Here's a map of yesterday's thunderstorms over Gotham and the East: Jeff Masters commented this morning: The severe stormsContinue reading “These are not your grandfather’s thunderstorms: Masters”
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