ITAWT ITAWA PUDYE TTATT: The Secret Language of the Skies
by Deborah Fallows
Aviation has a lot of special language, like sailing or gymnastics. Its brief, even curt efficiency and orderly templates keep planes on course and out of each other’s way. Short. To the point. Unambiguous. No small talk to clog up the frequency. But there is one special set of aviation jargon, more alien than the concocted vocabulary of Esperanto and more bizarre than patterned wordplay of Pig Latin or Id. This is the lexicon of waypoints, which are the road markers in the sky for directing planes on a course. (Read it here.)
Monthly Archives: October 2013
How Did a ‘Public Ivy’ Take Root in Vermont?
How Did a ‘Public Ivy’ Take Root in Vermont?
by John Tierney
There are lots of familiar American “college towns” – places where a single university dominates the social and economic life of the city. Think Boulder, Ann Arbor, Madison, Berkeley, Princeton, Charlottesville. None of those college towns has quite the feel of Burlington, Vermont. (Read it here.)
The Question We Keep Running Into: What Turns a Town Around?
The Question We Keep Running Into: What Turns a Town Around?
by James Fallows
Plus, a nationwide golden age of beer. (Read it here.)
Vermont Report: Shaping the Soul of a School
Vermont Report: Shaping the Soul of a School
by Deborah Fallows
The school’s neighborhood is home to a mix of the down-and-out, the frontier-pushers, and is also the first stop for many of Burlington’s constant influx of refugees and immigrants. (Read it here.)
A New Type of Growing City
A New Type of Growing City
by James Fallows
“This is where the talent wants to live.” (Read it here.)
Back on the Bright Side: Silicon Valley in Vermont
Back on the Bright Side: Silicon Valley in Vermont
by James Fallows
Why did this company end up on the shores of Lake Champlain, rather than on the San Francisco Bay or Puget Sound? (Read it here.)
American Futures 