Santa Fe’s First Year without Winter

This may come as news to people in the eastern half of the US and Canada, and certainly to friends in Southcentral Alaska who just experienced their coldest winter on record, but here in Santa Fe, at an altitude of 7000 ft., we had no winter.

“Flow” is Really a Cli-Fi Movie: And Your Cat and Dog Will Like it Too!

Watching the movie with my friends and Sammy—who thankfully has never been caught in a flood or even seen a river—I couldn’t help but see the story as a metaphor for the water element out of balance. Disruption of the water cycle is of course a key component of the human-caused climate breakdown that we are already living through...

Be Unpredictable: Smash the Algorithm (and AI Too)!

The "Escape the thought police" game When I was a child of perhaps nine years old, my best friend, also named Debbie, and I used to play an odd game called “Escape the Thought Police.” Bear in mind that this was the mid-60s and though we were both reading at adult level by that age, … Continue reading Be Unpredictable: Smash the Algorithm (and AI Too)!