What driving the length of Route 66 taught me about America

This year Route 66, America’s “Mother Road”, turns 100. Running for 2,448 miles from Chicago to Santa Monica, the world’s ...

I drove the entire length of Route 66. This is what it taught me about America

Tackling the 2,448 miles from Chicago to Santa Monica revealed much about this polite, enthusiastic and eccentric country ...
The White Mountain Independent

Rocks from the sky, and why hard science is hard

Peter Aleshire’s article about Meteor Crater, published in the Jan. 16 Independent, combined in my mind with an article I wrote that was published on Nov. 22, 2024 about the ...

Evidence of 'lightning-fast' evolution found after Chicxulub impact

The asteroid that struck the Earth 66 million years ago devastated life across the planet, wiping out the dinosaurs and other organisms in a hail of fire and catastrophic climate change. But new ...