Being a freelance writer and refusing to work for free
The 40th anniversary of NASA’s Viking Mission and why NASA still believes we might find life on Mars
A fascinating history of the linguistic origin of “about” in Canada
How the media tore down Clinton while building up Sanders and Trump
Started reading
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
Serialized in three parts in The New Yorker, where President John F. Kennedy read it in the summer of 1962, Silent Spring was published in August and became an instant best-seller and the most talked about book in decades. Utilizing her many sources in federal science and in private research, Carson spent over six years documenting her analysis that humans were misusing powerful, persistent, chemical pesticides before knowing the full extent of their potential harm to the whole biota.
Visited
Omaha and straddled the Nebraska-Iowa state line on the Bob Kerrey Pedestrian Bridge
Rita Florez | freelance writer 