D. None of the Above
D. None of the Above: National Geographic execs share an optimistic outlook
By Daniel Dunaief
What’s possible?
We can spend time criticizing each other, becoming nattering nabobs of negativity, as British Prime Minister Winston Churchill once said. We...
D. None of the Above: The reviving benefit of reverential or spiritual silences
By Daniel Dunaief
Shhh. Listen. If what you hear is nothing, then maybe you’re onto something.
Noise envelops us. Some of it, like the sound of...
D. None of the Above: What we can and can’t blame on the pandemic
By Daniel Dunaief
While for now, the pandemic is officially in the rearview mirror, according to the World Health Organization, it’s worth considering what we...
D. None of the Above: Like a moth to the flame, revelers revere Janet Jackson
By Daniel Dunaief
Most of us engage in group movements that don’t make our day. We get in a car, sit in traffic as we...
D. None of the Above: What if dogs could take pictures of their owners?
By Daniel Dunaief
What if my dog had opposable thumbs, understood technology, had his own phone and could, and wanted to, take pictures of me?
Yes,...
D. None of the Above: Students in the pivot-empty-stadium-online generation prepare to graduate
By Daniel Dunaief
The clock didn’t care about COVID-19.
Time marched forward at the same pace that it always has, and yet, the pandemic, which altered...
D. None of the Above: Wanting air time amid a wall of words
By Daniel Dunaief
I don’t know if teeter-totters exist anymore. Remember them? Two people sit on opposite ends of a board, with a support in the...
D. None of the Above: Local female scientists react to BNL hiring its first female lab director
By Daniel Dunaief
Finally!
Brookhaven National Laboratory has had nine lab directors since it was founded in 1946. Earlier this week, the Department of Energy facility,...
D. None of the Above: This happy idiot has had enough of rancor and division
By Daniel Dunaief
I’m a happy idiot, or HI for short. I admit it. I’m even thinking of forming a club. No, it’s not a...
D. None of the Above: My predictions for the action in the stands as baseball begins
By Daniel Dunaief
They’ll win some, they’ll lose some, and it’ll rain, and they’ll have to play some other day.
No, I’m not going to predict...
