David Stairs
Blackhole visualization by NASA
The first photographic image taken of the super massive black hole at the center of Messier 87 by the Event Horizon Telescope was released in 2019. We finally had verifiable visual proof of their existence,… Continue Reading →
David Stairs
Rainbow eucalyptus trees. Courtesy Vincent Callebaut Architects
Almost thirty years ago I published an essay in Design Issues, subsequently anthologized in The Designed World, about how, in a world evolved for biophilia,… Continue Reading →
David Stairs
Transmission electron micrograph of an Ebola virus virion. Image credit: Frederick Murphy / CDC.
I recently finished Laurie Garrett’s The Coming Plague (1995). Thirty years ago I read it for the first time,… Continue Reading →
David Stairs
When the scientists of the Manhattan Project solved the technical challenges for the first atomic bomb, they were under the impression they were in a race to the death with evil forces, their Nazi counterparts in occupied Europe…. Continue Reading →
David Stairs
With each passing year, as the realization is brought home to us just how misdirected industrial capitalism is, the names of certain visionaries come to mind as exemplars of how we need to think in order to design the survival of humanity…. Continue Reading →
David Stairs
Taking daily ice core samples on Antarctica. Courtesy BBC
Just this week the BBC reports that sea ice surrounding Antarctica is “mind-blowingly” low. This probably does not concern you too much. After all, you’ve never been to Antarctica,… Continue Reading →
David Stairs
Summer 2023 may be remembered as the year Americans finally awoke to climate change.
While choking smoke from Canadian wildfires enveloped cities like Minneapolis, Chicago, Detroit, and New York, places in the southwest suffered record high temps…. Continue Reading →
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