This is the grave of Queen Anne, as well as Prince George of Denmark. Born in 1665 at St. James Palace in London, Anne was the daughter of the future King James II. This fact alone would make things complicated at her birth. When she...
Author: Erik Loomis
This is the grave of Frank Sprague. Born in 1857 in Milford, Connecticut, Sprague grew up in North Adams, Massachusetts. He got a good education. He wanted to go to.
I recently finished reading Emily Bender and Alex Hanna's The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want. They are experts in the field.
This is the grave of Wayne Morse. Born in Madison, Wisconsin in 1900, Morse mostly grew up on his parents farms. They were Progressives, big fans of Robert LaFollette. Morse and his siblings were told to have strong opinions, backed up with evidence, and to...
I don't imagine statewide bans on business approved by the federal government will hold up in the courts, but the issue of AI data centers is politically extremely hot and.
I may be a westerner from west of the Cascades--the endlessly rainy corner of the region--but all of my family on both sides were from eastern Oregon, eastern Washington, and.
This is the grave of Randy Castillo. Born in Albuquerque, New Mexico in 1950, Castillo was just a regular kid, part Apache, part Hispano. And like a lot of regular kids, in 1964, he saw The Beatles perform on the Ed Sullivan Show. He was...
Lead is bad for you. Obviously. But it also doesn't explain everything. We have, for example, the risible argument in Caroline Fraser's recent book that lead poisoning in the Northwest.
I know some people around here have no patience for generational politics. I get that it's limited and a shortcut from real analysis. OK. On the other hand, these polling.
This is the grave of J.B. Jackson. Born in 1909 in Dinard, France, James Brinckerhoff Jackson's parents were rich Americans. He spent his childhood between the U.S. and Europe, including fancy schools in Switzerland. His family had a ranch in New Mexico and he often...
America is sure making friends globally. An 86-year-old French woman who moved to the US to marry her 1950s sweetheart is being held in a crowded detention centre in Louisiana.
This is the grave of Mamie Till Mobley. Born in 1921 in Webb, Mississippi, Mamie Carthan grew up in Chicago. Her parents got out of Mississippi shortly after she was.