The Chicken Little Agenda
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22 Live Interviews added to website!
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Updated personal website!
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NBC is without honor
NBC passes off their deliberate distortion of Zimmerman's 911 call as a production error.<< MORE >>
When "freedom" is its own worst enemy
The handwriting is on the wall. Ignore it at your peril...<< MORE >>
A bit of planning and a lot of luck– A graduate course in High Adventure
Some people observe life...others live it!<< MORE >>
Christmas cheer
A capsule summary of what is wrong with our world...<< MORE >>
Our Wedding - Jill S. Mayer & Robert G. Williscroft
On November 19, 2011, a significant historical event took place at the Los Angeles Adventurers' Club - the first wedding ever held at the Club, a wedding between Club member Dr. Robert Williscroft and his sweetheart, Jill Steele Mayer.
The Bride & Groom
(Click to view Video of complete ceremony)
THE ABSOLUTE NATURE OF A RELATIVE UNIVERSE
Is reality, the external world, independent of man’s consciousness, independent of any observer’s knowledge, beliefs, feelings, desires, or fears?<< MORE >>
Will the budget be balanced and the country get out of debt anytime soon?
Michael M. Dunn, President/CEO of the Air Force Association recently penned these words regarding balancing the national budget and getting out of debt.<< MORE >>
Snap. Ka-pow! Fat lip, but fat chance punch leads to charges
What constitutes a physical assault in Toronto these days?<< MORE >>
Just an eighth grade education...
An 8th grade education in 1895...<< MORE >>
Ten years after September 11 - A Muslim's perspective
There are good Muslims and bad Muslims. This guy is one of the good ones!<< MORE >>
Take a leap into Hyperspace
Is this the future of space travel?<< MORE >>
Decreasing Term Life: What the Insurance Industry Doesn't Want You to Know
While examining term insurance availability, I rediscovered how little both the insurance industry and the general public know about insurance.<< MORE >>
Hope
42 years ago today the most important event in human history happened<< MORE >>
The Green Thing
We didn't have the green thing back in the day!<< MORE >>
The effects of the Big Lie
We all expect political spin during a campaign, but...<< MORE >>
Media Bias?
An example of media bias at its worst.<< MORE >>
Thoughts on 235 years
Today we are 235 years old. How long will we last?<< MORE >>
'Til hell freezes over...
Is Hell exothermic or endothermic?<< MORE >>
It's our land
Even those who aren't particularly sympathetic to Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu could get a good measure of satisfaction from this interview with British Television during the retaliation against
Hamas' shelling of Israel.<< MORE >>
Just the national symbol
When was the last time you witnessed something like this just outside your door?<< MORE >>
The sparrow(s) and the hawk
Sometimes, a little teamwork is all it takes.<< MORE >>
Space – the first fifty years
The time between the Wright Brothers' first flight and Neil Armstrong's first step on the Moon was just sixty-six years.<< MORE >>
Obama v Netanyahu
Obama has publicly proposed that Israel return territories captured in the Six-day War. Will he next propose that the US return the Southwest to Mexico? Or Florida to Spain? Or the Eastern Seaboard to England?<< MORE >>
A Relativity Birthday Present
This is an ingenious experiment that worked for Dr. Williscroft's own son. I genuinely hope that it works for your child, too, and that each new story in this series will enrich your child as much as they did his son. In fact, I sincerely hope that this experiment will prove to be very successful for all children!
Dr. Frank Drake
Carl Sagan Center for the Study of Life in the Universe
SETI Institute, Mountain View, California<< MORE >>
E-Bomb: The Ultimate Terrorist Weapon
A properly constructed E-bomb can effectively "fry" everything electric and electronic within several miles of the point of detonation. And the pulse is not the end. During the next fifteen minutes or so, collapsing electrical systems and communications grids will distribute the pulse, and create their own smaller pulses, analogous to an earthquake aftershock. The entire affected electrical and communications system will tear itself apart – self destruct.<< MORE >>
"We can fix global warming" say Chris Rapley & James Lovelock
When you have a cool solution - you simply have to find a problem it can solve.<< MORE >>
Legal Briefs and Speedos
I stumbled upon this delightful piece while surfing this morning. Sometimes, there simply has to be more to the story...<< MORE >>
Down Periscope...
Jacques Piccard and my friend Don Walsh were the only people to plumb the deepest spot in the World's oceans — the Challenger Deep. Then, in 2008, Piccard died, leaving only Don. But that is about to change...<< MORE >>
The politics of science
If the data won't fit...change it!<< MORE >>
Free Will
Are you, or are you not, the captain of your ship?<< MORE >>
The International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge 2010
This is simply beyond cool – especially the interactive video at slide 12 of 15.<< MORE >>
Through a Glass Darkly
How is it that two people can look at an event, and yet when they describe it, it is as if one of them was not even present at the same event seen by the other?<< MORE >>
iSLide, uSlide, do we Slide?
So...what's wrong with a brisk walk?<< MORE >>
Big Brother is Watching You...and that ain't all bad!
Sometimes, Big Brother just holds your hand as you cross the street.<< MORE >>
Driving & Shaving don't mix!
Very funny column by Celia Rivenbark, from Wilmington, NC. She is a syndicated columnist with McClatchy-Tribune Media Services.<< MORE >>
Will the real Velociraptor please stand up!
Oliver Stone did it with recent history, and apparently Steven Spielberg has done it with very ancient history.<< MORE >>
Let there be light lift...
From time to time in science and engineering somebody develops an idea that seems to have legs, but with time the legs go away, and all that remains is the interesting idea.<< MORE >>
Solar mirrors to save the planet
Solar mirrors can save Earth from an asteroid strike.<< MORE >>
Al Qaeda's Message Confirming Bin Laden's Death
There have been several published postings by al Qaeda confirming that Usama bin Laden had indeed been killed by U.S. forces. Here is a summary of a translation of this message, courtesy of MEMRI, read just moments ago on Fox News by Jennifer Griffin<< MORE >>
Asteroid Strike – The ultimate disaster!
2004 MN4 – just a few numbers and letters. Couple it with April 13, 2029 – Friday the 13th, however, and you have something just a bit more than a few numbers and letters – the possible end of civilization.<< MORE >>
How big is big?
So, how big is big, really?<< MORE >>
The Death of bin Laden and a Strategic Shift in Washington
Two apparently distinct facts have drawn our attention. The first and most obvious is U.S. President Barack Obama's announcement late May 1 that Osama bin Laden had been killed. The second is
Obama’s April 28 announcement that Gen. David Petraeus, commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, will replace Leon Panetta as CIA director. Together, the events create the conditions for the U.S.
president to expand his room to maneuver in the war in Afghanistan and ultimately reorient U.S. foreign-policy priorities.
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Every little bit helps.
When you reCAPTCHA, you foil spammers and preserve history.<< MORE >>
Usama bin Laden is dead!
We should talk to Muslim extremists in a language they will understand...<< MORE >>
A real solution to the illegal alien problem
When you're up to your neck in alligators, you really don't have time to drain the swamp.<< MORE >>
German Engineering vs. Arab Technology
Detonating the terrorist bomb is just part of the problem.<< MORE >>
The Starchild Compact
Recently, the spacecraft Cassini did a fly-by of Iapetus a few thousand kilometers from the surface. What it saw supplies tantalizing evidence that we might be the children of star children.
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