Monte Davis has been a freelance writer for most of his career. He studied physical chemistry, then comparative literature with Joseph Campbell. He published article in the NY Times Magazine, Newsweek, Learning, Medical Dimensions, Science Digest, and other publications as well as two books, and held writing and editorial posts at OMNI, Discover, and Psychology Today. Later he wrote for corporate clients in computing, pharmaceuticals, and engineering, including thirty of the Fortune 500. Along the way, he committed carpentry on a geodesic dome in the Maine woods, renovated a loft in DUMBO on the Brooklyn waterfront, ran marathons, and occasionally taught language arts at secondary schools and PR writing for undergraduates. Email: montedavis49 [at] gmail [dot] com
by Monte Davis What’s a blind spot? Physically, it might be an area obscured behind a clump of trees in an otherwise open landscape. Or a gap between the views in the side and rear-view mirrors. Lines of sight cut short, or nonexistent. Metaphorically, it gains new connotation: a blind spot is something you don’t…
by Monte Davis Only a moment ago he asked Mrs. Murdoch to fetch his parents. Now all three are standing in the kitchen doorway, watching the reflected sunlight that skitters above the stove, across the ceiling. When he notices the adults, he mischievously directs it into their eyes. John Clark Maxwell squints and raises a…
by Monte Davis 12+16+16 = 44. We can all agree on that. 44/12 = 3 2/3. Good so far? That’s all the math needed to ask some pointed questions about CCS. That stands for carbon capture and storage (or “sequestration”), a technology discussed and explored at pilot-project scale for decades. Its goal is to separate…
by Monte Davis Climate change first came to many Americans’ attention in June, 1988. James Hansen, director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, testified to the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources that the signal of long-term warming from increasing CO2 in the atmosphere had emerged unmistakably from the noise of year-to-year variation…
by Monte Davis If you know more about fallout shelters than a dark TV comedy based on a video game, you probably know that people are still finding relics in basements and storerooms of old schools, hospitals, and factories: olive-drab drums of water, cartons of high-nutrition crackers, first-aid and sanitary supplies, even bicycle-driven fans to…