Larry Wright is known as the first drummer use to five-gallon plastic buckets as drums. As a young teen, he dr…
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Population growth is not just threatening human health, it’s driving hundreds of species into extinction. For…
Comcast has come out claiming that it supports President Obama’s plan for net neutrality… except for the onl…
“Florence, Arizona,” a new documentary by Andrea B. Scott, tells the story of the Southwestern town that 8,500…
In trying to evade accountability for the introduction of cholera into Haiti, the UN under Secretary General B…
An infographic provides the latest look at the newest skies we’ve seen. Zoom in to take a tour of the colored…
Naked mole rats are a far cry from your typical cute-and-furry mammal, but these amazing little critters are…
The big broadband providers for years have promised to reach the entire country, often making promises in exch…
It’s become “accepted wisdom” that Democrats are for net neutrality and Repulicans are against. However, that…
No longer a luxury, green architecture is meeting the looming challenges of population growth and climate chan…
In the following pieces, I look further into another song which has found a home in both Britain and America,…
A disgruntled Time Warner Cable customer in New York is taking the company to court for “false advertising” an…
AT&T is making news this morning by threatening to take its fiber deployment ball and go home in the wake of P…
FCC boss Tom Wheeler is apparently still weighing what option he’s going to go with for his net neutrality rul…
Thanks for supporting my project, There Goes the Neighborhood School. Your help enabled me to spend 10 days in…
There may be more beautiful places than this, but we haven’t found any that compare yet. Here’s a view from th…
Customers are fleeing cable TV in droves, and the cable providers have figured out the solution to Wall Street…
T-Mobile’s CEO John Legere has presented himself as “the people’s CEO” when it comes to mobile offerings. But…
As Chemical Tales progresses, we’ll take a tour of the periodic table - sort of. You will soon notice that cer…
Beer of the Month is an epistolary tale that begins with beer and ends in an entirely unexpected place. As the…
What is the story of the couple in Cottage Four? Why are they there? When will they return? What is suggested…
While big broadband has spent years fighting back against municipal broadband, often passing laws that severel…
A horror story set in the most innocent of places. When a strange visitor shows up at the home of a pregnant w…
As international fears about Ebola intensified, new bookings started to dip noticeably across South Africa’s t…
It’s no surprise that those opposed to net neutrality would react negatively to President Obama’s support for…
Mom used to call it a ‘gully washer’ - a brief but soaking rain. We had one of those at the end of October an…
This podcast might deserve an early death after an episode in which we mash together mung bean pancakes and di…
And here we have the expected frantic reaction from the major broadband access providers to this morning’s ann…
For all the talk of competition and price wars in the mobile space, the reality is that it’s been greatly exag…
In a surprise move this morning, President Obama officially called on the FCC to reclassify broadband under Ti…
Many of you have been asking me on Twitter about ‘what’s next’ for me now that the Bradford project has come t…
Singapore is sometimes called an authoritarian state. It doesn’t do very well in press freedom rankings, eithe…
Many people are reluctant to fully adopt a plant-based diet and lifestyle because of concerns around holidays…
Reported “land grab” attempts, the 50th anniversary of The Wilderness Act, and the funnel weaver intersect to…
I found The Sound Book at Kramerbooks in Washington D.C.’s DuPont Circle, a real bookstore that has almost a w…