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Heartbleed Update: Sites That Tell You Which Passwords You Should Bother to...
[Update: see bonus xkcd link below.] For background, see this early Heartbleed dispatch on general principles of password hygiene, and this one on a range of test utilities to check whether possibly...
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The Seas? The Skies? The Transformation of a Company Town, Part 2
The small town of St. Marys, Georgia, differs from the other places we have visited in the basic structure of its economy. When we first went there in the 1970s, it was still what it had been for many...
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Fly'n'Drive Notes From All Over
Scene 1, from China this week. Thanks to many people there who sent me this news item and asked whether I had missed my historic chance: A mysterious and debonair foreigner lands a plane on a road in...
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If Doctors Don't Like Electronic Medical Records, Should We Care?
Dr. David Blumenthal, who now is head of the Commonwealth Fund, has been a friend since we both were teenagers. It was a sign of his medical / tech / policy skills that the newly arrived Obama...
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Your Linguistic Tour of the Okefenokee
Reinvention and resilience across the nationRead more Deb Fallows, whose Twitter dispatches you can now follow via @FallowsDeb, has a new road-trip post available. It's on the linguistic aspects of...
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Takeoff and Landing, From Inside the Cockpit
On Wednesday night of this week, Deb Fallows and I are doing a program at Washington's historic Sixth and I synagogue, in conversation with the Atlantic's editor-in-chief James Bennet. We'll be talking...
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The Globalizing Golden Age of Beer
John Tierney has put up an excellent and informative post today about the state of the American brewing market. Short version: the biggest sellers are still the blandest water-beers (Bud Light as #1,...
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The Electronic-Medical-Records Email of the Day, No. 1
Background: In last month's issue (subscribe!) I had a brief Q&A with Dr. David Blumenthal, who had kicked off the Obama Administration's effort to encourage use of electronic medical records....
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Please Join Us at 6th and I This Evening
This evening James Bennet, the Atlantic's editor-in-chief, will be leading a conversation with Deb Fallows and me about the American Futures travels we've undertaken for the past few months, and for...
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A Better Battery
Why do batteries matter? Look at all your electronic devices: from laptops to smartphones to Kindles or iPads, even your watch. Those electronics are getting better at reducing the amount of energy...
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Housekeeping Note: Batteries, and Typos
Our new issue is out. I know that you've already Subscribed! Meanwhile, apart from all the other value between its covers -- and really, a lot of exceptional pieces in this issue -- these housekeeping...
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The Electronic-Medical-Records Email(s) of the Day, No. 2
For background on the EMR saga, see this original article and previous installments one, two, three, four, five, six, and seven. Today, let's talk technical and business specifics of electronic-record...
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2 Charts That Put the Chinese Pollution Crisis in Perspective
Everyone "knows" that China is badly polluted. I've written over the years, and still believe, that environmental sustainability in all forms is China's biggest emergency, in every sense: for its...
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Michael Janeway, and The Atlantic
I was sorrier than I can say to learn today that Michael Janeway, a friend who influenced many journalistic institutions but probably most of all The Atlantic, had died of cancer. The Boston Globe,...
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6th and I Program on C-SPAN Tonight
Reinvention and resilience across the nationRead more This week the Atlantic's editor-in-chief, James Bennet, interviewed Deb Fallows and me in an evening program at Washington historic Sixth and I...
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A Report With Slightly Encouraging Environmental Implications
In the current issue, I have a brief story based on an interview with Steven Chu and Yi Cui, now both of Stanford, about advances in the seemingly boring but actually exciting world of battery...
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The Spirit of Easter, Small Airport Edition
It has been a full and interesting day in the air, from Maryland to Mississippi, and a longer day than expected for a surprisingly touching reason. Reinvention and resilience across the nationRead...
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A Song of America's Downtowns
Last weekend my wife and I had three young software developers from Uzbekistan staying with us at our house. (It's a long story.) They were charming young men—Pavel, Igor, and Roman—who had come to...
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Beer Notes From All Over, Starkville Edition
Here we see the on-draft menu from the Beer Garden in Starkville, Mississippi -- the kind of place where recently you might have expected to find Bud, Bud Light, and Corona. Reinvention and resilience...
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The New Industrial Belt: The Deep South
It's been a long, and fascinating, but long—but also fascinating!—series of days in and around the "Golden Triangle" of Mississippi. Fascinating enough that we'll be back for another visit and more...
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