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I just read a news article about a woman who went to court to keep her teaching job after the school she taught at found out that she had made pornography.  I have to say, I am very sad by the decision of the court and question whether in fact it is a violation of…

This age is defined by mass delusion which is cataclysmic. The delusion is on massive scales. It involves incomprehensibly vast amounts of people. This scale gives the destructive power cataclysmic proportions. What is delusion? Placing value on that which value should not be placed upon, and not valuing that which should be valued. Delusion is…

I just read an article which states that Germany has arrived at the level of producing 22% of their power from “renewable” energy sources. But isn’t it obvious that what is called renewable energy is a delusion? Let’s consider a hypothetical scenario. What would happen if the availability of fossil fuels drastically drops? For this…

It is an outrage that collisions between motor vehicles and bicycles are not investigated properly. By failing to do so, law enforcement is condoning murder. In this story we are asked to believe that at 75-year-old man, who ostensibly would not be an inexperienced rider, just somehow decided to turn left into a truck passing…

There is news out about researchers who are working on an ultra-portable X-ray source that may be as small as a mobile phone. While the device would use 100,000 volts to create the X-rays, it needs only a 10 volt source which is nothing short of phenomenal. Now imagine if you or someone you know…

In the news lately has been discussion that in order to enable the US federal government to exceed its debt limit, due to the fact that there is opposition to increasing the limit, that the Secretary of the Treasury order the US Mint to issue a $1 trillion coin. I am appalled that this discussion,…

Please sign the Whitehouse.gov petition to make the metric system standard for the US. When one thinks about it, if humans cannot even manage something as basic as agreeing to use the same measurement system globally, how the hell can they manage to do more complex things?

There was an article at nytimes.com yesterday about digital globes. I decided to check and found some very cool videos. The above globe is created by a private company and is apparently very popular in schools in China right now. The one below by the NOAA. One cheap version of this could be a standard…

Often when considering lighting for various purposes there is a focus on color temperature. There are fancy new LED light systems which can adjust between very warm to very cool temperatures. On the surface that sounds great. But there are other characteristics of light which are important. All non-color light is emitted in a spectrum.…

I’ve always thought that dancing can help us feel better. But we have to be careful too that we are not surrounded by self-destruction when we go dancing, i.e. things like alcohol, tobacco, or drug abuse which more than nullify any positive effects from dancing. CHICAGO– A dance intervention program improved the self-rated health of…