Brandon R. Reynolds
Brandon R. Reynolds is a cultural spelunker living in California & writing on how culture, science, art and politics all find one another in the way-down dark.
PROJECTS
LosAngeles Magazine
Dead Pilots Society Is Where TV Scripts Go for a Second Chance at Life
All that’s needed is a theater, an audience, and a few actors.
Worth Magazine
Destinations: Los Angeles
Fueled by a tech boom, the creative culture of the City of Angels is going well beyond “the Business,” transforming everything from social media to space travel.
Modern Luxury
Everything Gone but the Water
What survived, and what didn't, when a wildfire tore through an ancient hot springs.
Modern Luxury
Ghosts in the Ghost Ship
The tragedy that struck Oakland in December was prewritten in the city’s building codes. But rewriting them could unleash another kind of disaster.
LosAngeles Magazine
Going Boldly Into the Complicated—and Questionably Legal—World of Star Trek Fan Productions
Star Trek superfans are taking the franchise into their own hands.
LosAngeles Magazine
Inching Ahead with Hyperloop
Elon Musk has steered clear of trying to realize his vision for tubular transport, but now his company SpaceX is hosting a pod-building competition.
Modern Luxury
The Soaking Saga
Californians revel in some of the upheavals of nature even as they fear others.
LosAngeles Magazine
The Voice Actors Behind Video Game Characters Are Famous, but Also Nearly Invisible
This is what it’s like to have thousands of fans who don’t recognize you.
ww2.kqed.org
Breaking the Ice for Polar Science | KQED Science
An account of my journey to Antarctica with the Coast Guard's old semi-reliable icebreaker, Polar Star.
Kansas City Star
Farmers dig into the digital world
Getting farmers wired requires finding an interface for two different ways of life. On the one hand are most consumers, who work and play networked to one another by computer, smartphone or tablet. On the other are the farmers, who are mostly cut off, working in fields where cellphone signals can be weak.
SFWEEKLY
Improving on Plain Old "Lighter Colored"
Researchers over at Berkeley Lab's Heat Island Group are experimenting with different pavement coatings on one of their parking lots to determine if they can cut down on the "heat island effect," wher...