In August 1919, Curly Lambeau and George Calhoun met above a Green Bay newspaper office. They didn’t have a stadium, or money, or even uniforms. What they had was persistence — and a sponsor from Indian Packing, whose name stuck. Nobody expected much. Yet from that hat-passing start, the Packers became the only small-town team […]
The wind is rising on the South Col. Nepalese prayer flags snap in the gale, storm clouds boil above the ridgeline, and avalanches echo down the Lhotse face. Above Camp Four, climbers are stalled—tents battered, oxygen running low, radios crackling. Is there a climbing window or not? Which rope teams are pairing, and which are […]
For a golden stretch of the 20th century, petroleum was the wonder cure. It solved the whale oil crisis, freed us from the limits of horse-based transport, filled our vehicles with clean power and our homes with cheap light. “Sweet as a honeybee.” The Four Tops had it right in 1965 in The Same Old […]
Once upon a cornfield morning, a hare boasted that he would electrify the world before lunch. EVs for all, he cried! Electrify everything! Decarbonize the plant by suppertime!. Reporters scribbled. Investors nodded. The hare sprinted to the next podium, promising leaps no tortoise could match. The tortoise said nothing. He tightened his harness and got […]
The old maps warned of it. Beyond the edge of the known, in the deep mist of the sealung fog — too thick to breathe, too thin to swim — cartographers scrawled a warning: Here Be Dragons. It was not certainty, but dread: the edge of the world, where only the purest of heart, armed […]
The trade winds move softly through the palms. In the upland valleys, rain feeds taro terraces. On the shore, fishermen cast nets where their grandparents once stood. This is aloha ʻāina—not just love of the land, but a covenant with it, a rhythm of care and reciprocity. Then came the jets. First as a marvel, […]
Queen Business-as-Usual loved her mirror. It gleamed, polished to perfection with petrochemical surfactants. She had a clean fetish, and this mirror was her pride — her proof that no molecule could be fairer than hers. Every morning she would ask: “Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who’s the fairest surfactant of all?” And every morning the mirror […]
The velvet rope parts, the crowd presses in. Today, the master cutter will make his move. Somewhere behind us, Inspector Clouseau barges forward, notebook at the ready. “Zis is ze original cutting of ze Pink Panther, yes? I must investigate ze el sceno de crimo!” The guard frowns. The cover is lifted… and instead of […]
I get it. You think Superman feeds the world, or Batman saves it. But the truth is, the planet runs on water — and what swims in it. I’m Aquaman, and while my Justice League buddies chase comets or clobber villains, I’m here to talk about algae. Not just any algae — EnSoil Algae, a […]
The weather in Eugene, Oregon, in late September 1969 is unseasonably cold. Upper 40s, a sharp bite in the morning air. Fog lies heavy in the Willamette Valley, pressed down by a temperature inversion, cool air trapped beneath a warmer ceiling. The moisture condenses into a gray curtain, a veil between the runner and the […]
