The Christ Child: A Nativity Story

December 4, 2019 · by Lori | in holidays, video | tagged Advent, advent calendar, Christmas, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, film, Hebrew, LIght the World, nativity, video | 1 Comment

Loquita asked me yesterday, Dec. 3, where the advent calendar was, and I just looked startled. [Read more]

Less like a flight path, more like a donut

November 29, 2019 · by Lori | in Mind Stretch, philosophy, politics, social issues, video | tagged alternative, economics, fairness, GDP, growth, Kate Raworth, Oxford, society, thrive | 2 Comments

—the capitalist equivalent of Spain’s Running of the Bulls. [Read more]

Worry into focus

September 27, 2019 · by Lori | in nature, politics, science, social issues, video | tagged climate, climate action summit, climate change, climate crisis, global warming, Greta Thunberg, solar energy, Sweden, UN, wave energy, wind energy | 3 Comments

Failing to do so will sink us. [Read more]

Shrinking inaccuracies down to size

September 15, 2019 · by Lori | in history, learning, map, science, video | tagged cartography, equal-earth project, Gall-Peters, geography, map, Mercator, Neil Kaye, XKCD | 2 Comments

Today I ran across a new entry in the field of maps-not-as-bad-as-Mercator, [Read more]

Turning ’round the house

August 24, 2019 · by Lori | in archives, creativity, history, travel, video | tagged Burning down the house, engineering, Germany, innovation, Molfsee, Talking Heads, windmill | Leave a comment

With all that’s new and exciting in the world these days, 21st century humans might begin to think that almost every truly remarkable innovation has happened on our watch. Look! We’ve got carbon nanotubes! Self-driving cars! 3-D printed food! I don’t want to take away from these modern marvels, but I have to say, while we were in Germany recently, we saw a wonder that could turn the world around. [Read more]