Sometimes, a little teamwork is all it takes.
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The sparrow(s) and the hawk
Category Archives: Politics
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.
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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?
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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.
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“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.
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The politics of science
If the data won’t fit…change it!
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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?
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Big Brother is Watching You…and that ain’t all bad!
Sometimes, Big Brother just holds your hand as you cross the street.
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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.
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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.
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.
