Editor’s Note: So, the answer is not to eliminate mandates, but rather to stay aware of the associated risk of carelessness. Be careful out there. Alex Horenstein, University of Miami and Konrad Grabiszewski, Prince Mohammad Bin Salman College (MBSC) of Business & Entrepreneurship Governments all around the world are trying to contain the spread…
By Don Pelton Board Member Wolf Creek Community Alliance We’re working on a project to gather together some of the more beautiful photos taken by those of us who love Wolf Creek, to create a collection that we may use for a book, and for other educational displays. Plants and native (non-human) critters of…
From Atlas Obscura: The House of Automata
Editor’s Note: I first ran across this essay, a commencement address given by Paul Hawken to the lucky University of Portland graduating class of 2009, in a beautiful book of inspirational essays called Hope Beneath our Feet. When I wrote to Hawken to get permission to reprint it, his reply included this postscript: “I went to Nevada Union High…
By Don Pelton I had a slightly melancholy experience this morning. I ran across a webpage describing all my old high school teachers and what became of them. I graduated in 1959. I was especially interested to know about the one teacher — an English teacher — whom I have spoken of ever since…