We all read Voltaire’s “Candide” in our school days and the mantra still ricochets in our heads, “Oh yes, this is the best of all possible worlds” as the hero Dr. Pangloss goes about his series of misadventures. Voltaire was satirizing the words of an intellectual giant, a fellow…
Could you even imagine an airship originating from another world – autonomous, or maybe flown or guided by an alien creature? Even our Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) – commonly called drones you probably haven’t seen, unless you live in Pakistan, Somalia, or Yemen, not a welcome sight, I’m sure.…
Planet Earth is inhabited by a Type 0 civilization, one which gorges on fossil fuels for energy, ideologically wants to retreat to the past, and fearfully searches for threatening shadows. We are stumbling toward a Type I civilization, considering the use of solar power, wind power, and other renewable…
One of mankind’s greatest intellectual triumphs is its discovery of a love of wisdom commonly known as Philosophy. Unfortunately, especially in the United States, any mention of the term solicits a roll of the eyes and an insult about an ivory tower or some scatterbrained professor with mismatched socks.…
We all see gravity at work when we take a step, throw something across the room, see rain fall, or leaves float to the ground. For something so common in our lives, it is still a mystery. We have two tested theories, not very recent theories at that: Newton’s…
This isn’t about “gay marriage” - bisexuals wish to marry as well - and it’s not a matter of “same-sex marriage” either, because this one still leaves intersex people in uncertainty.
Dr. Maria New, a pediatric endocrinologist of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and Florida International University, and psychologist Heino F. L. Meyer-Bahlburg of Columbia University, are once again in the news with their controversial experiments on female fetuses with the experimental and dangerous drug dexamethasone (DEX) after Dr.…
While we rotate around our own axis of myopic concerns, programmed to be first-class consumers, and culled like sheep by corporate America, we unknowingly rotate with the earth eastward on a 23.5° tilt at somewhere around 1000 miles per hour, at the same time mostly unaware of zipping…
Consuming more seafood, Gulf residents are at greater risk from seafood exposed to oil and Corexit. Areas of most concern are developmental issues for fetuses and children, as well as cellular toxicity and cancer.
Speaking of orgasm (that's what this is all about anyway, right?) in a recent sex study researchers found that some women can bring themselves to orgasm just by thinking about it.