Breathe with Me
Tuesday, June 29th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | 2 Comments »** Vincent Janssen Steenberg suggests the following soundtrack for this article: “Breathe” – The Prodigy ** I had dinner this week with three engineers. It turned out that two of them were closely involved in a subject that is currently being ...
An acid sea
Monday, February 2nd, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | 3 Comments »I received an email from the translator. The subject by which it arrived in my in box did not bode very well: “Some more depressing news ...” The email contained a link to the BBC news website. An article was posted there ...
The ocean as monument
Thursday, January 8th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »The USA Today that was slipped under our hotel room door this morning had the following front page headline in big letters: Huge Ocean Tract Protected. As a final decree before he passes the job on to Barack Obama, George ...
The Law of the Sea
Thursday, January 8th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »I called professor David Caron of the Law of the Sea Institute in Berkeley to make an appointment. What I got on the line was an extraordinarily charming man with a gloomy message. It didn't seem to make much sense to ...