What a year to be teaching a class titled “Imagining the Apocalypse.” Barely three weeks into the fall semester, dire warnings came out from the creators of various companies of artificial intelligence who gathered to tell the tale of our demise via social media. According to The Guardian, several industry insiders warned that there was a “greater than 10...
Read MoreAs I walked through a torrential downpour to move back into my campus office last week, I realized that I’ve been at what I consider my “new” teaching position for five years now. It felt like a big risk at the time to leave behind something I knew to leap into the unknown, also during a monsoon rain. But my past self did a great job recognizing that this...
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Dear Friends, It doesn’t really matter if I’m watching soccer or not—the stories from the World Cup seem to find me anyway. I watched parts of games that were on the big television screens throughout the Dallas/Ft Worth and Nashville airports last week as I traveled to see my mother. I also watched people from all over the world stop to catch a glimpse of...
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“We are being forced to live through really sh*t times, so read that romance book and dream of happily ever afters…” –Matthew Hubbard I used to be embarrassed to admit that I read romance novels. The habit began with my mother’s Harlequin romance collection and a particularly boring summer when I was 15. With only one friend and an unrequited crush on the...
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There are times when words fail this writer, and trying to describe the Artemis II mission is one of those times. While I missed a lot of the day-to-day mission milestones in real time, I found myself catching up before bed every night. Some of the most striking images were unexpectedly non-moon related—Christina Koch’s braids at zero gravity, a jar of...
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