I filed the first draft of a big story yesterday, one that took months to work on and weeks to write. I celebrated by wandering through the Greek and Roman collections at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (and making a brief detour into the renovated Oceanic gallery). Among many inspiring things, I saw this bust of a woman: It was … Continue reading Of microbes and marble quarries
I’m not normally a fan of press releases, but damn, these high-def Hubble images are pretty! Makes it a lot harder to hate on NASA. For me, anyway. (Full press release, here) Although NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has taken many breathtaking images of the universe, one snapshot stands out from the rest: the iconic view … Continue reading Happy Birthday Hubble!
I’ve been reading a lot about global poverty for a current assignment. Katherine Boo is one of my favorites, and this particular sentence really punched me in the gut. From her 2009 New Yorker piece, Opening Night: The fences insured against a time when a scavenger in Gautam Nagar might learn that a shot of … Continue reading Katherine Boo is my hero…
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