Particle Fever – A Movie to See
Stepping completely away from WW I (see all the postings below) or other day-to-day concerns, I spent a wonderful 90 …
Category Archives: Science & Technology
Virtual Unreality: A Warning
As a genetically formed skeptic I am gollywogged over what so many people believe so much of the time without …
America: Digging out the Past
Charles C Mann’s book, 1491:New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus, (2005) is a thoroughly researched, fluidly written overview and …
Race is Not a Useful Concept
The 2014 Annual Question at Edge.Org, surely a site you should check in with periodically, is “What Scientific Idea is …
Power: Decentralized and Centralizing All In One Net
We had the good fortune to wander into a Jason Lanier talk at Book Passages in Corte Madera a few …
Why Does the World Exist?
On a recent 21 day river trip, the Colorado carving down into 1.8 billion year old rock and the stars …
Darwin: The Mouthpiece of Satan
Now here’s a book I have to read — Rebecca Stott’s new book about Darwin, and it’s not the first, …
You and Your Virtual Life
This isn’t about books, movies or politics, but stepping under my computing hat for a moment I thought readers should …
Bioluminescence Flashes to the Rescue
Very cool article a couple of weeks back in the NY Times about Laura Widder, a famed marine biologist, who …
The Fastest Mobil Network?
Though I mean to post tech stuff here I seldom do, unless linked directly to global warming or other such …
Climate Change Measurement: Lend a Hand
Very useful article in the Sunday SF Chronicle Home and Garden about measuring budding time of local trees, as a …
An Engineer Ponders Santa Clause
There are approximately two billion children (persons under 18) in the world. However, since Santa does not usually visit children …