Chris Amico

Curious when there’s been a window during which it’s okay to politicize mass shootings? Our calculator can help! More →

Three mind-bendy conversations about glass later, I see the sublime in my windowpanes. More →

Scorsese keeps making standout movies he couldn’t have made when he was younger, for so many reasons More →

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Staff writers at Reviewed think management published AI stories under the names of non-existent writers. Parent company Gannett denies it. More →

Protomaps is "an open source map of the world, deployable as a single static file on cloud storage". It involves some very clever technology, rooted in the PMTiles file format which lets you create a single static file containing vector tile data... More →

In 2021, Thiel, a top tech investor and Trump megadonor, began a secret life as a confidential FBI informant. More →

Everyone agrees it’s time to change the Clean Air act's exceptional events rule, but has different solutions. More →

Exceptional events rule has become ‘regulatory escape hatch’ for states that want to meet federal air-quality standards More →

Major investigation shows local governments are increasingly exploiting a loophole in the Clean Air Act, leaving more than 21 million Americans with air that’s dirtier than they realize More →

How has pickleball gotten so darn popular and what can grappling learn from it? More →

Learning to read is the greatest gift a school can give a child. And yet here, in the birthplace of public education, outmoded teaching methods leave thousands of students struggling to gain this critical skill. More →

After years of dismally low reading scores, the state’s largest school system is making a dramatic shift toward “structured literacy,” instruction that draws on a body of research. More →

New research shows that fossil footprints discovered at the edge of an ancient lakebed in New Mexico's White Sands National Park date back to between 21,000 and 23,000 years ago. More →

Here are the major sports drawn at the same scale to help appreciate the differences between field and court sizes. More →

Using embeddings to navigate impenetrable domains More →

TG is an exciting new project in the world of open source geospatial libraries. It's a single C file (an amalgamation, similar to that provided by SQLite) which implements the subset of geospatial operations that I most frequently find myself needing: More →

After my last long post, I got into some frustrating conversations, among them one in which an open-source guy repeatedly scoffed at the idea of More →

ATTN: Readers new to skill acquisition and/or ecological approaches:A vastly simplified and shorter version of this article can be found here. The p… More →