Judith Lewis

Photo by Slobodan Dimitrov At the headquarters of the National Weather Service in Silver Spring, Maryland, Next Generation Radar (Nexrad) measures severe weather by bouncing signals off obstructions in the atmosphere. The various speeds of return show up as colors on the radar screen. Although flocks of migrating birds appear......

“This goes way beyond geeks,” complained computer-engineering student Eric Gradman, shouting over the indifferent rumble of passing cars on Sepulveda and Santa Monica boulevards Monday afternoon. “We‘re talking about a foreign citizen being arrested in the U.S. for giving a speech about code. And since code is speech, this is......

Photo by Jack Gould; In the week before I sat down to interview Jonatha Brooke, whom I knew primarily as the former half of the rock duo the Story, I had listened to her new record’s single, “Linger,” roughly a dozen times; I had watched the sweetly underproduced video she......

Why are people born? Why do they die? Why do they want to spend so much of the intervening time wearing digital watches? --The Hitchhiker‘s Guide to the Galaxy, 1979 He was best known as the creator of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy radio series, book series, television series,......

These days, declarations of responsible politics necessitate disclaimers, so I’ll get mine out of the way first: I would never have set foot on the bus had my car not quit working. No — I amend that: I would never have set foot on the bus had a conflict with......