Kim Stanley Robinson and Omar el-Akkad discuss the responsibility science fiction writers have to address the climate crisis. See alsoIf civilization can’t get through the next 30 years without a mass extinction event, such an event will hammer human c…
The End Of The University As We Know It
by Nathan Harden”In fifty years, if not much sooner, half of the roughly 4,500 colleges and universities now operating in the United States will have ceased to exist. The technology driving this change is already at work, and nothing can stop it. The f…
Responding to Newtown, Aurora, Blacksburg, et al
I watched President Obama’s speech at the Newtown Memorial last night. My college and high school-aged kids and some of their friends and cousins were there too. It gave me a chance to not only consider how to pick myself up after such a senseless trag…
Obama Shares Moment With Young Team
James C. CollierREAD MOST RECENT POSTS AT ACTING WHITE ACTING BLACK… Technorati Tags: Obama Shares Moment With Young Team, Election, Chicago, Tears, Thanks, Acting White