Archive - Gravity Is Gone

A low-gravity Happy New Year

As you might have (almost certainly didn’t) noticed, it’s been quiet around the Gravity Is Gone hallways the last year-plus.

Dec 31, 2022 •

July 2021

The Climate Left and Deference to Moderation

Over at his Slow Boring site, Matt Yglesias has a bit of a screed against the “climate left.” He argues, basically, that the activist groups (like the…

Jul 12, 2021 •

Knowns and Exxons and Unknowns

Two decades of climate inaction and the two damning quotes that bookend them.

Jul 1, 2021 •

June 2021

Rolling With Sheldon

With climate change, there is no single corner to turn.

Jun 9, 2021 •

May 2021

Manifest Inoculation

America's curse of individualism and the genetic reshuffling that couldn't care less.

May 5, 2021 •

April 2021

The Climate Tightrope

The conversation has changed, but there are still more ways to speak progress into existence.

Apr 23, 2021 •

February 2021

Shake Your Fist at an Empty Sky

Pondering the objections to a precursor of a precursor of solar geoengineering.

Feb 16, 2021 •

September 2020

Should I Stay or Should I Go

The hurricane—or the pandemic—doesn't care where your information came from.

Sep 11, 2020 •

July 2020

It Came From Outer Space

"The Martian" is Hollywood's best rebuke to Trump's coronavirus response.

Jul 30, 2020 •

The Pit of Success

For some environmental issues, "close" doesn't really exist.

Jul 23, 2020 •

June 2020

Unsafe at This Particular Speed

Some of the ways that coronavirus science—doing it, interpreting it, acting on it—is remarkably complicated.

Jun 12, 2020 •

May 2020

Between the Ones and Zeroes

The push to "reopen" and forcing binaries onto non-binary situations.

May 9, 2020 •

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