Thoughts and sketches on humans, nature, running, and the end of the world
On September 4, scientists observed the most distant explosion in the universe. The gamma-ray burst (a really bright and powerful explosion that happens when a huge star dies and collapses in a black hole) happened 12.6 billion light-years from Earth, which means 12.6 billion years ago, just 900 million years after the birth of...
I was on vacation last week, for a family trip to the Bay Area. I thought I would blog like crazy, but I didn’t. Partly it was because of Katrina. As my sister Paola wrote, the storm drowned my thoughts. The sadness, the anger, and the helplessness merged in a total paralysis. I enjoyed...
Bouncing from site to site, the video of Aaron Broussard, President of the Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, in an interview at NBC’s Meet the Press, this morning. More on Aaron Broussard on Technorati. The BBC collects witness reports of how it was to live inside the Superdome: A description of hell eerily similar to the...
I have had a really hard time writing about Katrina. It’s hard to write about things one doesn’t understand, and there is a lot I don’t understand about what happened there before, during, and after the hurricane. The effect of Katrina was predicted. Why did it take so long to react? I do not...
CNN, even journalists are overwhelmed: People are dying in front of us NPR: Robert Siegel challenges Michael Chertoff on the situation at the New Orleans Convention Center Even if Homeland Security is messing up, even if we are too overwhelmed and incredulous to speak, HELP Please. Donate to the Red Cross Pick a charity...
The management of CBC, the Canadian Public Broadcasting radio, broke the labor negotiations that had been going on for 15 months and locked out 5,500 CBC workers on August 15. The dispute is around the hiring of contractors and part-time workers. CBC, which has received no funding increase in five years, decided to solve...