Red Tape: Above Streetlights, Bathed in Starlight

January 14, 2002 by

At the coastline, sailboats and oil platforms take up the shining torch, stretching out toward the horizon where they meet the sky, and turn the entire world into one giant field of stars.
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Movie Review: The Wide Blue Road: No Man Is an Island

January 10, 2002 by

"The Wide Blue Road" is a film about a town of fishermen in Italy in the midst of a post-World War II economic slump
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Red Tape: It Makes You Want to Reach Out and Strangle Someone

January 7, 2002 by

Some of you may remember a column I wrote about my troubles with the phone company. What happened then was just the beginning. For the next two months my bills from Verizon failed to credit me for my ...
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ITP Receives $7.5 Million Gift

January 7, 2002 by

The money will be used to support programs at the ITP that are not federal funding targets, to provide immediate funds for cutting-edge research and for a physical expansion of Kohn Hall, which houses...
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The Deepest Darkest Secrets: An Interview with Robert Ballard

November 30, 2001 by

Robert Ballard, world-famous oceanographer and discoverer of the Titanic, graduated here in 1965 and is widely considered to be UCSB's golden child - and he has certainly gone a long way.
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Red Tape: You Follow in a Long Line of Finals-Haters, Young One

November 30, 2001 by

UCSB is a member of the Association of American Universities, a list of the 60 leading colleges in the U.S. and Canada. We were also ranked the second best public research institution in the U.S., as ...
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Famous Explorer Returns to UCSB

November 30, 2001 by

Robert Ballard, UCSB alumnus, famed oceanographer and deep-sea explorer, returned on Wednesday to speak in Campbell Hall. He spent his first few minutes on stage attempting to remember what he had lea...
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Red Tape: We’ve All Got Tickets for the Attack of the Clones

November 26, 2001 by

U.S. politicians have generally agreed, to the point of grandstanding at times, that cloning a human would be an unconscionable and unethical act. They just never got around to outlawing it.
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Red Tape: That Kind of Muzak Don’t Soothe the Soul

November 19, 2001 by

Try as I might, I couldn't place it. Then without warning, it happened. The orchestra on the PA system began playing Simon & Garfunkel's "Sounds of Silence."
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Red Tape: NASA’s New Administrator Could Create a Black Hole of Despair

November 16, 2001 by

NASA's latest expedition is to hell -- in a hand basket.
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Tonga: Unplugged

November 6, 2001 by

Next July, Tonga will be the recipient of the most advanced wireless communications network in the world. This hi-tech facelift comes with many difficulties, controversies and unanswered questions.
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Red Tape: National Error in Space Administration Goes for Broke

November 5, 2001 by

If you blinked, you may have missed it. On Oct. 23rd at 7:26 p.m. Pacific Standard Time, NASA's newest Mars probe, Odyssey, slipped safely into orbit around the red planet with little fanfare. Scienti...
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Red Tape: Tune Out Tonight, Every Night for ‘When Reality TV Attacks’

October 29, 2001 by

My problem is not so much with reality television. It's more with the fact that it's hard to find anything else on sometimes.
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Red Tape: Lies, Damned Lies and Outdated Statistics

October 22, 2001 by

After two and a half years at UCSB I am still unsettled by professors using obscenely outdated statistics to make points about gender inequality.
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Red Tape: What Are You Doing, Josh? I’m Scared, Josh. Let’s Talk.

October 15, 2001 by

My last computer fried when a glass of water spilled over it. I'm tempted to do the same to my new one -- and this time it will be on purpose.
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