Jon Gertner

Mar 24, 2024 | business-standard.com | Jon Gertner

By Jon Gertner ON THE MOVE: The Overheating Earth and the Uprooting of America It's happening already, of course. You can see it in the blazes in California, incinerating homes and forcing residents to escape the terror of wildfires. You can glimpse it in Arizona, where droughts have pushed farmers to give up on growing crops and sell their fields to developers.

Jan 25, 2024 | audiofilemagazine.com | Jon Gertner

Fred Sanders's narration enlivens an adventure-filled tale of early Arctic exploration that is more creative nonfiction than climate-change tome. Listeners set sail with the first Europeans to explore the planet's largest island--Greenland. Author Jon Gertner, who narrates the introduction and epilogue, is as fascinated with the remote expansiveness of the Greenland ice sheet as the handful of men who persevered through starvation and ice to traverse it.

Nov 8, 2023 | myemail.constantcontact.com | Jon Gertner |Daphné Richemond-Barak |Richard Gowan |Tobias Burgers

Quotes of the Day:“Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.” - Albert. Einstein“An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a persons main task in life – becoming a better person.” - Leo Tolstoy"The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history."- George Orwell. ​1.

Nov 7, 2023 | nytimes.com | Jon Gertner

Chief Master Sgt. Ron Lerch of the U.S. Space Force sat down in his office in Los Angeles one morning in September to deliver a briefing known as a threat assessment. The current “threats” in space are less sci-fi than you might expect, but there are a surprising number of them: At least 44,500 space objects now circle Earth, including 9,000 active satellites and 19,000 significant pieces of debris. What’s most concerning isn’t the swarm of satellites but the types.

Oct 5, 2023 | shepherd.com | Alex Tapscott |Walter Isaacson |T.J. Stiles |Jon Gertner

In The Innovators, Walter Isaacson reminds us that “innovation occurs when ripe seeds fall on fertile ground.” Like the earth beneath our feet, we stand on stratum upon stratum of technological innovation, each with unique markers of its age. Sometimes, the right idea, person, or group of people arrives at the right time to sow the seeds of something new.