Last month I started Black Leopard Red Wolf by Marlon James, and wrote about how its style required me to selfconsciously read unselfconsciously. Reading it was work for the first hundred pages or so, but then I didn't want to put it down. I got accustomed to the rhythm of the story and able to… Continue reading Reading Roundup: March 2020
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Fast-moving Antarctic ice loss redefines ‘glacial pace’
When we think of glacial motion, we probably imagine movement so slow as to seem perfectly still. But glaciers are constantly on the move, flowing like vast frozen rivers under the weight of immense amounts of ice. Glaciers normally move with seasons as well, seeming to advance during wintertime snow accumulation and to retreat when… Continue reading Fast-moving Antarctic ice loss redefines ‘glacial pace’
Environmental interactives and charts
A noncomprehensive list! Just a selection I've come across recently. Weather 2050: a tool developed by Vox.com to predict how your city's temperature and precipitation could change by the year 2050. They are using Representative Concentration Pathway (RCP) 8.5, which is a climate prediction scenario that assumes we will continue using energy at the same… Continue reading Environmental interactives and charts
A link roundup for those of us with climate change anxiety
Historically, this is the blog where I put writing that didn't fit elsewhere in my life. Reading and writing for pleasure, when I was supposed to be reading and writing for my dissertation. Video game stuff. Real talk about jobhunting. Topics that occupy a lot of space in my emotional landscape and occasionally need an… Continue reading A link roundup for those of us with climate change anxiety
Reading Roundup: February 2020
After We All Died by Alison Cobb. One of my creative writing classes assigned part of this collection of poetry and poetic prose, and the instructor recommended I read the rest after she read my speculative fiction short story (alluded to last month). This poetry is not about the future per se, but it is… Continue reading Reading Roundup: February 2020
The Reading Protocol
Today I interviewed a faculty member who will be teaching an online cross-cultural communication course at the university where I work. The online course is new but her expertise in the area is decades-long and rich and varied, and I enjoyed talking to her about how one goes about studying and practicing something as ubiquitous… Continue reading The Reading Protocol
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