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Thursday
Aug252011

The Resignation Of A Hungry And Foolish Genius

The news this morning was probably not unexpected. However, it was still shocking nevertheless.

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Tuesday
Apr052011

How To Sign Up For The Tour de France 

If you are an avid cyclist and are free during the month of July and would love to spend it in intense competition in the beautiful countryside of France,the dream of entering the Tour de France may be just for you.

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Sunday
Feb132011

Jersey Boys Music Is For The Four Seasons

Last month, I was fortunate enough to attend the musical, The Jersey Boys during its recent tour in Boston Massachusetts.

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Friday
Oct292010

Artificial Intelligence Drives The Google Car

Highway One between San Francisco and Los Angeles is the location of the latest Google experiment. Cars that run without human intervention are being tested by the technology giant. So far the experiment has been a success.

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Wednesday
Apr282010

Humor In A World Of April Fools

The first day of April every year brings an odd assortment of gags, tricks, and black humor.

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Monday
Mar082010

Oscar Night -That's Entertainment?

Oscar Night always brings its own brand of special entertainment. A parade of shallow Hollywood celebrities in expensive gowns on a red carpet.

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Tuesday
Feb232010

Les Miserables - A Musical Classic Of Our Time

The broadway production of Les Miserables opened on March 12, 1987 at the Barbican Arts Centre in England. The production would open on Broadway on the same day.

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Sunday
Jan242010

The 2010 Winter Olympic Games Preview

Competition at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games begins in Vancouver on Friday, February 12, 2010 with qualifying rounds of ski jumping and concludes Sunday February 28, 2010 with the men's ice hockey gold-medal game.

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Saturday
Nov282009

A Mystery Of History Called The Christmas Star

The Star of Bethlehem, also called the Christmas Star, in Christian tradition is a star that revealed the birth of Jesus to the three Wise Men (Magi).

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Monday
Apr272009

The World Wide Web Will Continue To Spread

In a few days the World Wide Web will celebrate its sixteenth birthday. The World Wide Web was made available for widespread use on April 30, 1993. In the last sixteen years the global spread of the web has been truly incredible.

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Friday
Feb202009

The Strange Tale Of The Buddha Boy Of Nepal

His international legend continues to grow. He has been featured on National Geographic and the Discovery Channel. He meditates in the solitude of the jungle most of the time, but when he reappears his followers have made some very unique claims.

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Wednesday
Jan072009

Life Jackets Are Not Polar Bear Gear This Year

Last May global warming alarmists were very concerned about the fate of the polar bear. Melting Arctic Sea ice due to man-made global warming was highlighted in stories in many newspaper and magazine publications as the prime reason that polar bears would become an extinct species.

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Saturday
Dec132008

Another Bid To Build A Flying Submarine

Submarines that can fly like airplanes have been promoted in science fiction entertainment for many years. As early as the 1960s, in the Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea movie and television series, a flying sub often used for exploration, was contained in the belly of a larger submarine called the Seaview.

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Friday
Nov212008

A Promising Future For An Invisible Man

The concept of a man becoming invisible was introduced by H.G. Wells over one hundred years ago. Through the years, science fiction has used the idea of a fantasy cloaking device to provide object invisibility often. In fact, it is a term that has become so common that it is found in the Star Trek Encyclopedia.

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Friday
Nov072008

Giving A Hand To A Real Bionic Man

In 1974, there was a futuristic television show called The Six Million Dollar Man. The popular show ran for four years and featured the adventures of astronaut, Steve Austin (Lee Majors). The show began with the astronaut near death but with science fiction and Hollywood creative thought readily available to provide an interesting story line.

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Tuesday
Oct212008

Buckypaper Could Change The World

Steel is one of the most common materials in the world. It is used in buildings, tools, bridges, automobiles, airplanes and appliances. Over the years, the strength of steel has been used by engineers to support structures, by architects for the design of different buildings, by the military for ships, tanks and planes and even by Hollywood in many movies that promote Superman as the "Man of Steel".

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Friday
Oct032008

The Large Hadron Collider Journeys Into The Unknown

Three hundred feet below the ground in a seventeen mile long circular tunnel on the border of France and Switzerland is the home of an eight billion dollar machine that took more than twenty years to build.

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Friday
Sep052008

The Last Mission To The Hubble Telescope

Updated on Tuesday, September 30, 2008 at 02:30PM by Registered CommenterJim Smith

The Hubble has given us pictures of merging galaxies, asteroids, new galaxies, the rings around Uranus, and other planets. It has given scientists insights into star formation and star death. The Hubble Deep Field has produced pictures of distant galaxies nearly ten billion years ago.

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Friday
Aug012008

Internet’s Inventor Tries To Discover The Perfect Soldier

The Russian satellite Sputnik was launched into space at the height of the Cold War in the 1950s. In America, the Sputnik satellite was met with complete national security fear.

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Friday
Jul182008

Amphibian Extinction May First Claim The Frog

Many of us grew up watching friendly Kermit the Frog on a television show called Sesame Street. Certainly, we can remember reading the fairy tale of the frog that turns into a handsome prince after receiving a kiss. However, in the Bible, frogs were certainly less endearing when they became a hideous plague that confronted Egypt.

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