Bill Gifford

Under the Craydar

HOTWIRED | Kirkus Reviews Good news, for a change, about high temperatures in the age of global warming.

Nice note from Kirkus on my forthcoming book, Hotwired — preorder if you like your science writing breezy! www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

Good company — definitely want to read the Salt Lakes book!

Summoning my inner Buddhist to reconcile opposing ideas: the president canceling comedy shows is terrible, and so is Jimmy Kimmel’s show

We also didn’t learn much about the Butler guy, but he died

They’re coming after … The Nation?!? The only people The Nation is trying to kill are its writers, by starvation.

After Kirk Killing, Americans Agree on One Thing: Something Is Seriously Wrong

Important to remember that everyone is hurting & scared now:

After Kirk Killing, Americans Agree on One Thing: Something Is Seriously Wrong www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/u...

“Workshopped”

I could have told you about the time he interviewed me for a job, over lunch, in a bar in Allentown, where we drank beers & he smoked.

(He was editor of Men’s Health.)

Can’t wait for this Tour de France stage to end so we can watch three 50 year old dudes in hats sitting around a table, hawking ketone shots 🙄

But obviously NPR is going to survive in some form, probably even more unlistenable at times, but free at last!

One door closes another opens, etc.

Or they could fuck it all up and just close.

PBS is another story. Absolutely there should be a place for non commercial/educational/obscure indie television (OG Sesame Street kid here)

How Do I Hate NPR? Let Me Count the Ways - Chicago Reader Every few years I make an anthropological visit to my sister’s home out west. My sister—her name is withheld to protect the guilty—is a lifelong bureaucrat who’s never worked for anyone who had to sho...

I’ve listened to NPR for decades, donated to NPR stations, & been interviewed on NPR shows. My career owes a lot to NPR. Even all those times when they stole my stories. But even I struggle to understand why it should be funded by taxpayers. chicagoreader.com/news/how-do-...

The Liberal Misinformation Bubble About Youth Gender Medicine How the left ended up disbelieving the science

“On the left, support for youth transition has been rolled together with other issues—such as police reform and climate activism—as a kind of super-saver combo deal of correct opinions.”

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

American Mid: Hampton Inn’s Good-Enough Formula for World Domination Hampton has become the largest US chain, and a global export, by being rigorously OK. The waffle makers are standing by.

How did @stephenrodrick.bsky.social not write this? www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Way cringier on TV

Let’s shrink Elon

It’s the holidays, you’re thinking “maybe I oughta cut back on drinking a little,” but then you travel somewhere with Brits on holiday and realize, Sweet Jesus, I’m *fine*

Paying $1000/mo for “concepts of a plan?”

So excited to be re-upping with Obamacare, Democrats’ signature policy achievement of the last 15 years. LFG!

'Eat What You Kill' Hailed as a savior upon his arrival in Helena, Dr. Thomas C. Weiner became a favorite of patients and his hospital’s highest earner. As the myth surrounding the high-profile oncologist grew, so did th...

This doc diagnosed a patient with stage 4 lung cancer and put him on chemo — for 11 years. Turns out he didn’t have cancer at all. He was a cash cow.

Insane from propublica: montanafreepress.org/2024/12/07/a...

Can the Indy Pass Save Skiing from the Ikon and Epic Pass Hordes? Everybody’s buzzing about this affordable passport to smaller, often overlooked ski resorts around the U.S. Its owners think their rapidly growing business could be the antidote to the ski industry�...

First post! Here’s a fun thing I did for Outside about a couple of renegades who built the hottest ticket in skiing, the Indy Pass. Read It if you don’t know what a “P24” is! www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adve...