Email Author Brandon R. Reynolds

2012 Stories by Brandon R. Reynolds

• This Year, for Real

  published December 26, 2012

  Like humans, we Night+Day entries sometimes give in to bad habits. We indulge in purple prose, we exceed our word counts, we (occasionally) write... More >>

• U.C. FUBAR: The Logo Is Dead. Long Live the Logo

  published December 19, 2012

  Last week the public reacted rather strongly after the University of California released a cheaper, crappier logo for our cheaper, crappier... More >>

• Environmental Protection: New Research Says It's About Spin

  published December 19, 2012

  Even here, at the Great Big Awakening or the Sortofpocalypse or whatever it is the Mayans have been dragged in to predicting, still we are... More >>

• Bug-Eyed: Visions of Sugarplums Will Dance Unmolested by Germs

  published December 5, 2012

  One way to see the holidays is as a wonderful opportunity to reconnect with family and friends, to clasp hands and embrace and breathe in the... More >>

• A Little Bit of (Almost) Everything

  published December 5, 2012

  If names are any kind of predictor of one’s fate, you have to sort of boggle at the success of someone like Paula Poundstone. While... More >>

• The Way We Were

  published November 21, 2012

  With all the talk of climate change, unchecked nanotech, and over-fished oceans, it's kind of a shame that people forget about the old-school... More >>

• A Condom in Every Wallet: S.F. DPH Seeks Mass Sex Appeal

  published November 7, 2012

  A city, like any living thing, has some weird urges. It's got a dominance streak a mile wide and sits there huge and damp as the Marquis de... More >>

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  Changing Minds: Advocates Reshape How We Think About Autism

  published October 31, 2012

  Illustration by Andrew J. Nilsen. The protesters call... More >>

• Hug Monsters: The Anti-Semitic Elmo Has Some Ugly Pals

  published October 24, 2012

  It could be the first time in history that a costumed street performer has been criticized for doing something worse than just being a costumed... More >>

• New Pavement Coatings: Improving on Plain Old "Lighter Colored"

  published October 17, 2012

  Researchers over at Berkeley Lab's Heat Island Group are experimenting with different pavement coatings on one of their parking lots to... More >>

• For the Birds

  published October 17, 2012

  Only in certain human endeavors can something attain a level of awfulness that it completes some weird circuit and be-comes good. Bad songs can be... More >>

• Washed Up: Pushing Triclosan Out of Our Soaps and Cells

  published October 10, 2012

  In August, the University of California at Davis published a study showing that triclosan, a commonly used antibacterial agent, weakens... More >>

• Belly Laughs

  published October 3, 2012

  While it's hard to think of something more deserving of the term "heckle" than an entire audience masticating on giant burritos whilst a comedian... More >>

• What’s Opera, Doc?

  published October 3, 2012

  Probably a lot of perfectly good culture gets avoided because people just don’t get it. Without a baseline understanding of the art in... More >>

• And I Feel Fine

  published September 12, 2012

  What if Armageddon was nice? Tickle fights, rainbows the size of Texas, a compulsive-hugging disease? The new world would require gentler survival... More >>