Last Eye Witness of the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

And now for a little history. As a 5 year old, Samuel J. Seymour was in Ford's Theater when Abraham Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth. He was the last living witness and was on I've Got A Secret with Gary Moore in 1956.

Happy Festivus!

Here we are at that magical time of the year. Where is your list of grievances?

"Let's rumble!"

Eureka Moment at MIT for Hydrogen Generation

Death In Mississippi

Astronaut Douglas Wheelock's ISS Photos

These photos have been circulating around the net for a couple of weeks, but in case you have not seen them, do not miss the opportunity. Wheelock could probably make a living as a photographer should he retire from NASA, but I guess having such awesome subject matter could be a factor.

Acent - Commemorating The Space Shuttle

A NASA engineer, Matt Melis, has put together a 45-minute tribute to space shuttle launches. In some amazing detailed shots, you will be able to watch the first phase of a successful space mission.

I recommend you watch this in full screen mode.

RFID Pickpocketing

Here is something to be concerned about. The RFID chip may have many negatives as positives, if not more.

Flying Car

For real. Click here.

Superheavy Element 111 Found in Gold

A nuclear physicist at Hebrew University of Jerusalem claims that he has found natural roentgenium-111 in gold using mass spectrometry. The observed half-life of synthetic roentgenium-111 indicates this should not be possible. Independent confirmation will be necessary to confirm.

Fingerprinting Electronics

I guess it was just a matter of time. You can run, but you will not be able to hide if you stay connected. Click here to read about how our electronics are in the process of being fingerprinted.

Who's Killing The Hydrogen Car?

Former Los Alamos National Lab employee Bob Lazar has been working for years on a hydrogen fuel system for the automobile. You can switch between gasoline and hydrogen fuel.

You much have an energy source to make the hydrogen (electricity from the grid, solar, or wind). Your vehicle must have a stainless steel header on the engine. It's been done for a while. The problem is to get it into mass production and market. There have been some bumps in the road. He is now in Michigan and working on getting production started.

Alpha Radiation in Houston Well Water

Here is a story out of Houston, TX that deals with alpha activity in drinking water. There are some statements by quoted scientists about health risks from radiation that don't quite match up with statistical reality. Statistically, it is not at all clear that there are health risks at low levels of radiation. Life has adapted pretty well to natural background radiation over our planet's history.

Frequent Fliers and Radiation Risks

Airline crews could be classified as radiation workers if they fly more than 85,000 miles a year. This risk may be greater than those from the new airport scanners that use 'backscatter' x-rays.

Nanoshells and Cancer Treatment

Nanochemical technology appears to be gaining ground in the area of cancer treatment. One of the big positives is that nanochemical do not have the uncomfortable side-effects that chemo drugs seem to induce in the patient. Let us hope that progress is swift

Graphene - A New Molecule That Could Have a Big Impact

Read all about it.

Better Living Through Chemistry

I've always thought that 'chemistry' between colleagues and team members was over looked when it came to achievements and championships. This article makes a strong case for just such a view.

Cloud Printing

Here is a nifty way for Smartphone users to print remotely using something called Dropbox. Be sure to view the video in this article.

Another Technical Breakthrough in Solar Cell Technology

Stanford University researchers have found that ultra-thin solar cells can absorb sunlight more efficiently than the thicker, more expensive-to-make silicon cells used today.

Cold War Nuke Test Photos

Click here for a link to the NYT photo album of various nuclear weapon detonations. I find the most surreal to be of the one with VIPs witnessing a test.

Herding Cats!

Super WiFi Coming

The FCC is working on freeing up the so called 'white space' frequencies that were made available with the conversion of analog to digital TV last year. Click here to read about how this may be the next big jump in cyberspace connectivity.

New iPhone?

DIY DVR

Click here to learn about how you can build your own DVR.

12 Places To Go If The World Goes To Hell

Some of these places may be harder to get to than others, but here are the options.

The Cheapest Time to Book a Flight

Makoto Watanabe has the formula. The best time is eight weeks. Read details here.

Manhattan Project II - The Thorium Fuel Cycle

The thorium-based nuclear power reactor is getting more traction in the press and scientific and engineering circles. This would be a great time for American know-how to jump on this and lead the way.

Solar Flares and Changes in Radioactive Decay Rates

Now here is an article on something that indicates we may not know as much about the forces of nature as we thought. Engineers at Purdue Univ. noticed small changes in some short-lived radionuclides during solar flares. Wow! Could be the start of some new breakthroughs in the world of physics.

Another Major Breakthrough in Solar Energy Development

A recent paper published by engineers at Stanford Univ. describe an important breakthrough in solar energy collection and conversion. The process is called photo enhanced thermionic emission (PETE). Conservatively it appears that this means a 50% improvement in solar conversion efficiency. This is big.

Proper Coiling of Your MacBook's Power Cord

Click here to watch a video on how it's done.

The Internet in 5 Years?

Click here to read an opinion piece about the direction the internet may be taking due to the influence of Google and Verizon. This direction will not be good for the financially disadvantaged.

Nuclear Energy - The Thorium Debate

Kirk Sorenson lays out the debate for using thorium to generate nuclear energy at "Nuclear Townhall."

The Rapid Decline of the American Middle Class

The 'Middle Class' in the USA is being systematically wiped out of existence and here are 22 statistical points to demonstrate this postulate.

I for one, would like to see our elected officials stop becoming wealthy by exercising the perks of their office. No more federal pensions for elected officials would be a great place to start.

IMHO, the voters are not so much angry as they are disgusted. Ok, that was my political diatribe for the summer.

Relaxing Nature Sounds

Here is a nature sounds mixing board that is a free service and requires no registration. You can share, download and save your favorite compositions.

America in Color: 1939 to 1943

Click here to view some amazing color photos taken in years between 1939 and 1943 across the USA. Black and white photos can make things appear so dated, but color makes things look 'now.'

The grain of these slides is very fine so I assume this might be Kodachrome film, but I'm no expert. Digital photography has lead to the death of Kodachrome. The last developing lab in the country will stop developing at the end of this year. Also the last professional photographer to shoot the last roll of Kodachrome will have his work published in the National Geographic.

5 Reasons Why Green Tech Has Such A Tough Time In America

A short history of green technology in the United States is covered here.

The Best Sounds For Getting Work Done

Here is an interesting article about how to choose the best music for getting work done.

Our Universe Born In A Back Hole?

I wonder what Professor Einstein would have though about this proposed theory?

Energy Cheaper Than Coal

The latest article at EnergyFromThorium makes a case for using liquid-fluoride thorium reactor (LFTR) technology to make burning coal unnecessary and uneconomical. I would love to see TBTB go for it. By the way, the father of LFTR technology was Alvin M. Weinberg. See my previous posting.

My Summer Reading List

I'm juggling five books for my summer reading pleasure: 1) Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson; 2) Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand; 3) Storms of my Grandchildren by James Hansen; 4) Ford Country by John Grisham; and 5) The First Nuclear Era - The Life and Times of a Technological Fixer by Alvin M. Weinber (re-read since initial 1997 with some perspective).

Economics of Solar Power Improves

Shrinking overhead costs are making solar power more attractive. It can't happen soon enough.

Deep Space Energy Source (Pu-238) In Short Supply

Over the past 15 years or so, we have limited our sources of Pu-238 which is a good source of electric power for deep space probes. The U.S. space program is running out of options.

Local Solar Energy Companies Trying to Survive

Some local solar energy companies are trying to navigate the complexities of the alternative energy climate via the TVA's Generation Partners program. Tax incentives have been the life blood of alternative energy. I'm not an economist and wish I knew more on the subject, but it seems that tax incentives essentially work like a savings plan.

This helps in two ways: 1) helping bring the costs of energy saving technologies closer to current production costs and 2) helps increase the electric power supply which reduces the need for new power generating capacity. Another benefit is that once the technology costs have been paid (hopefully within 5 to 8 years), then the consumer gets the payoff of significant savings due to lower power consumption.

The US Economy - Not So Good

Think that we are in the beginnings of an economic recovery? Ambrose Evans-Pritchard of the Telegraph doesn't think so.

The Internet and Thinking

Neil Tweedie (it's his real name) has written an article in the Telegraph about how our use of the internet may reshape our brains and leads to shallow thinking.

Tesla Motors Going Public with IPO

Elon Musk is putting it all on the line with the first IPO for an American car company since Ford went public in 1956. It is wealthy man's auto, but I hope they make it. Mass production will be the only way to get the price down where the masses can afford to take the plunge.

7 Myths About Grilling A Steak

Here is something for all you carnivores out there in search of the perfect grilled beef steak. May I add that IMHO, the best off-the-shelf marinade is Moore's brand? Also, grass fed beef is better but may be hard to find and more expensive than the typical grain fed beef.

The Deepwater Horizon Well May Be Damaged

Here is an informative article published Friday in The Times-Picayune about the limited options that are available in trying to stop the worst environmental disaster this nation has seen to date.

It seems that BP was cutting corners when they ran out of well casings down near the oil reservoir and started using flimsy liners instead. Let's see, they were more than 30,000 ft deep in the ocean floor where temperatures are in excess of 500 deg. F. and pressures up to 70,000 psi, and they begin to do things that common sense tells you is untested and potentially dangerous.

Solar Hydrogen House

Watch this short video to learn about Michael Strizki's solar hydrogen house in NJ. He uses solar power to convert water into hydrogen (using an electrylser) which he then stores in 10 x 1,000 gal propane tanks. He then uses the hydrogen in those tanks to power his house through the winter. He also has a 15 year old geothermal system which helps heat and cool his home. The heat extracted from the air conditioning system is used to heat his hot water.

This is no doubt an expensive system. This guy doesn't appear to be a millionaire but I can certainly think of worse things to invest in. One negative is that once you build this, you probably would not have much incentive to move.

Wake Up and "Smell" The Methane

From Dr. Joseph Mercola:

We haven't heard much about the massive quantities of methane gas spewing out from BP's leak.

Given that the mixture belching forth is roughly half methane and other gases by mass, shouldn't we be concerned about the potential effects on climate, since methane is 26 more times as potent a greenhouse gas as carbon dioxide?

Methane is a large enough part of the leak that some have even suggested using it to measure how much crude has been released, since tracking methane is easier than tracking oil in seawater.

Downhole Leak in the GOM - Relief Well Is Our Only Chance

Most people are not getting the full and disturbing information on the GOM runaway oil leak from the mainstream media. No wonder. After you read this, you will understand why. Things are not going well and they are not likely to improve anytime soon. I would like to be optimistic about the outcome, but it is difficult to find much hope in this fiasco.

BP may have punctured a critical barrier in the earth's crust. There may be a vast amount of oil deeper than anyone ever dreamed (this oil may be of non-biological origin). The technology we have may be just too puny to deal with oil at temperatures in excess of 500 deg. F and pressures up to 70,000 psi.

"Kill Switch" Proposed for the Internet in the USA

Typically, I do not make overt political postings in this blog, but this item of idiocy needs some exposure. I suppose that intentions like this are the reason the Tea Parties have sprung up over the last year or so.

Kirk Sorensen's TEAC2 Talk

Sorensen obviously did his homework on this excellent talk/article on a very encouraging path toward a sustainable nuclear power industry. Now if just enough people will listen and act.
Click here.

Retire A Space Shuttle In Orbit

Here is an interesting idea. Retire one of the Space Shuttles in orbit with the ISS. There are many pluses on this. After all, how much good will three Shuttle do sitting in museums around the country? The Shuttle can still be used to help maintain the ISS, provide an emergency escape system, and provide shielding from orbital junk. I think it should be seriously evaluated.

Hail Storm In Oklahoma

Check this out. It gets very intense around the 1 min. mark. Unbelievable!

Do you suppose that roofing companies will be very busy over the next few weeks?

Plasma Rocket Breakthrough

I find it strange that with all the re-shifting of NASA's manned space program goals, that the Ad Astra VASIMR plasma rocket engine technology is not getting more press coverage in the USA. Here is a link to a report from our neighbors to the north, the CBC, with some encouraging developments on getting this new engine tested on the ISS in 2013.

If there is to be a manned mission to Mars, the success of this plasma engine (or something like it) is absolutely essential. Mars in 39 days is something that the human body can handle. Just make sure the flight path is clear.

iPhone/iTouch/iPad App and Nuclear Power

Believe it or not, now there are Apple apps for helping researchers build better nuclear power plants.

What Is the Record Depth For Drilling?

With the oil gushing out in the Gulf of Mexico, I've been wondering about just how deep are they going when looking for oil these days. A little research indicates that the deepest hole on record was done in the Kola Peninsula in norther Russia which hit 40,229.66 ft. Drilling started in 1970 and ended in 1994. This was not to find oil, but was an exploration of the make-up of Earth's crust. It was estimated that the temperature at that depth was about 572 deg F and was just too much to drill any further.

In U.S.A, the record depth on the was 31,441 ft in the Bertha Rogers gas well in Oklahoma in 1974. They had to stop due to hitting molten sulfur.

In 2005 U.S. based Chevron drilled a well in the Gulf of Mexico to 34,189 ft below sea level making it the deepest offshore oil and gas well in history. I found no information on what the sea depth was for this well. The pipes and drill get smaller the deeper they go into the ocean floor. At over 30,000 ft the drill bits are only about 8 inches wide, which makes them fairly delicate and subject to breakage.

The deepest onshore oil and gas well came in at 37,016 ft on Sakhalin Island, off the Russian coast. Those Russians have chutzpah don't they?

So, that all being said, I find it very interesting that BP had drilled to what was reported to be about 30,000 ft. Click here to check this article out that is from May 2005.

Some Things About Facebook You Should Know

I'm not too happy about where Facebook is going these days. A big issue is privacy. Read all about it here in an article from Wired.

Six Easy Steps to Avert the Collapse of Civilization

Why do societies collapse? How can internet technology be the key to keeping ours from doing so. Click here to watch the video.

Dark Chocolate and Brain Protection

Researchers at Johns Hopkins have discovered that a compound (epicatechin) in dark chocolate is a silver bullet in protecting brain cells from stroke damage. Guess what destroys epicatechin? Heat and light. Guess which company has a process for making dark chocolate to preserve this important molecule? MXI

Get At Least 6-Hours Sleep And Live Longer

Uh-oh. Time for bed.

Behind the Scenes at Disneyland - The Midnight Shift

Here is this week's off-the-wall story about the midnight maintenance crew and the work the do at Disneyland.

Stimulus Jobs v. Beryllium Risks

As some of my readers may know, I just recently completed a job as a mobile laboratory manager on a project which had the objective to measure natural radioactivity and beryllium oxide in soil at a former beryllium ore refining plant.

This recent report on the issues of human health and beryllium oxide exposure in the work place is relevant and informative, at least to me and my colleagues.

A lot of taxpayer dollars are going into the cleanup of these types of sites. It is challenging work and to do it safely requires management commitment, worker discipline, added expense and complexity to all tasks.

The U.S. Spent Nuclear Fuel Policy: Road to Nowhere

Here is some background on the saga of the search for a spent nuclear waste depository in the United States. This article is not technical. The author does not cover many of controversial issues dealing with seismic activity, ground water, and the integrity of the site characterization data, but it is still a worth while read.

We are still without a long-term solution on this matter but something must be done regardless of further development of the nuclear power option.

Guenter Wendt 'Pad Leader' - R.I.P.

A legend at NASA, Guenter Wendt passed away today at 85 years of age. Guenter was the man in the White Room that helped get Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo astronauts get their spacecraft and off the launch pad. He was a walking history book. He was a technical consultant for Tom Hanks on the HBO miniseries "From the Earth to the Moon" and authored "The Unbroken Chain."

Cold Fusion Experimentally Confirmed

It only took 21 years but someone was finally able to experimentally confirm the phenomena of cold fusion. The announcement came last week at the American Chemical Society's annual meeting. No doubt Fleischmann and Pons were pleased. Now all that is needed is a coherent theory of how it all works.

Beer Byproduct-Powered Batteries?

This type of battery may become very popular, particularly in bars and sporting events. It's for real. How ironic if they start using this battery in cars.

Steve Jobs on Adobe Flash and Apple

Here is the scoop on why Apple will not support Adobe Flash on it's mobile devices.

Visable Shockwaves from Eyjafjallajokull

3-D Without Glasses

Dimension Technologies apparently has been developing a 3-D video technology that does not use 3-D glasses. My question is what kept this technology from being adopted for broadcast TV? I assume the cost and bandwidth requirements may be a bit much.

Volcanic Ash Cloud Effects

It appears that the short term effect of the Icelandic volcano will be bluer skies. Air travel seems to be having a big effect on the atmosphere too.

Adam & Apple

Lastest On Tesla Motors

Things seem to be rolling along for Tesla Motors. Looks like they plan to go public soon. They are also in a deal to make drivetrains for Mercedes.

Last Rites for the 3.5-inch Floppy

Sony is pulling the plug on its 3.5-inch floppy disc in early 2011. Wow, I guess some people are still using these things. Apple punted on the floppy way back in 1998 with the then new iMac.

Rocket Racers - NASCAR Meets Star Wars

Click here to see a demo of a futuristic new sport that may allow spectators to get a lot more involved.

Celebrate Hubble's 20th Anniversary on Your PC Desktop

Hard to believe it has been 20 years since the Hubble was placed into Earth's orbit. Here is a link to Wired where you can download some spectacular new Hubble images for your PC desktop. For about 3 years now, I've been using the photo of the Sombrero Galaxy as my wall paper. It's 50,000 light years in diameter. It helps me keep perspective on things.

Build Your Own Celluar Network

Here is the story on a new open-source project called OpenBTS that allows you to create your own local cellular network. Connect it to the internet and you have a global connection. Wonder what TPTB will do to curtail this?

Chocolate Good For The Heart

More confirmatory information on the benefits of eating healthy dark chocolate. One of the advantages of living on this Earth, we have chocolate!

Solar Energy Breakthrough That Everyone Missed

Spectrolab, Inc., a subsidiary of Boeing, made a breakthrough in solar cell efficiency way back in 2006. Hard to understand why we didn't hear about this.

Drought Monitor

You can click here to monitor the extent of drought conditions in the U.S. I imagine the folks that live in areas of drought already know what's up. This just lets the rest of us check on trends.

Cool Design

Click here to read about a new design in cardboard packing. I hope it gets some marketing traction.

Time Lapse Video of Ash Cloud From Iceland

Click here to see a time lapse video of how the Icelandic volcanic ash has spread over Europe. I would bet that this will make for cooler weather in the northern hemisphere in the next few months due to sunlight reflecting back into space off the suspended dust particles.

9 Ingredients To Avoid In Processed Foods

You might want to read the label on your food container.

Incredible Skydiver Stunt

Here is an amazing video of a stunt by an Austrian jumping from one glider to another while at 6,500 ft and 100 mph. Very cool.

We Are What We Eat

Can you believe some cattle growers are feeding their livestock with chicken poop? That's what journalist David Kirby reports. It is needless to say, disturbing.

Chicken manure is definitely a waste problem in this country. Nitrates and phosphates have turned out to be big pollution components. One chicken producer has developed a system to make bio-fuel from his chicken waste, but the problem is larger than most realize. The system's cost runs about $0.5M, but it can save thousands each month on power costs. I'm concerned about how quickly things can be done to mitigate pollution of aquatic systems.

3D Already at a Crossroads?

The head of Dreamworks Animation, Jeffery Katzenberg does an interview with Variety on how the movie industry can blow it with 3D if they get too greedy.

Dick Jeppson - Enola Gay Weaponeer - RIP

Morris R. Jeppson was one of the two weaponeers aboard the Enola Gay, which dropped the "Little Boy" atomic bomb on Hiroshima Japan.

Triclosan is Bad

You might want to rethink your use of antibacterial soaps and gels. Aren't these things tested before released for public use?

Apple - The New Media Company

Here is what Apple is doing. They keep doing things better and keep getting bigger. They have come a long way since the late 90s.

Electronic Book-Ripper

For about $20 and a digital camera, you make a DIY book scanner. Click here for details.

Applied Technology

For all the tens of thousands of years of human history and technical development, it has all been for this purpose. Click here.

Pixar Goes For A Gut Check

Pixar (makers of Toy Story, Cars, etc.) has developed a 3D CT scanning system.

What About Driving While Talking on a Cell Phone?

Are you a 'supertasker?'

iPhone Coming to Verizon?

There are lots of potential Verizon customers out there that might buy an iPhone. It appears that Apple and Verizon have something in the works.

New Breakthrough In Solar Cell Technology

Click here to read about a new breakthrough in solar cell technology which uses black silicon. This process lowers the manufacturing cost and shows a boost in efficiency.

How To Paint With Chocolate

This is for real. Learn how to paint with chocolate. Artists are eating it up.

50 Facts About U.S. Nuclear Weapons

Some info from the book Atomic Audit: The Cost and Consequences of U.S. Nuclear Weapons Since 1940.

Toxic Seafood Warning

This isn't good.

AREVA and the Nuclear Renaissance

AREVA's CEO, Anne Lauvergeon, is putting it all on the line to kick-start the global nuclear renaissance for electric power production. The French design and build state-of-the-art nuclear power reactors. These reactors are expensive but they work very well. I wonder if AREVA has considered the options of the pebble bed reactor and/or the thorium reactor. These two nuclear technologies have big advantages in the non-proliferation arena.

Snake Oil?

Scientific evidence for popular health supplements.

Intersting Facts About The Great Pyramid

The Great Pyramid may be the most interesting and intriguing object on our planet. Here is a link that covers some fascinating facts.

Back to School at the Kahn Academy

Salman Kahn has made over 1,000 educational videos and posted them on YouTube. The topics are chemistry, physics, biology, math, and even finance. This is a great resource for anyone needing a science tune-up or for a student who needs a different perspective. I'm impressed.

No Stimulus for NASA

It appears that about 23,000 NASA employees will be getting pink slips after the end of the Space Shuttle program later this year. I wonder if the Russians will have a hike in ticket prices for hitching a ride to the International Space Station? If the private sector can't get it done in a short period of time, the US manned space program may not be able to recover for a long time, if ever.

39 Days To Mars

Given all the coming cutbacks in manned spaceflight for NASA, there is a new option that could put Mars within reach in most of our life times. Franklin Chang-Diaz and his VASIMR rocket engine are starting to get some notice.

Astronaut Harrison Schmitt on Climate Change

Here is an opinion by Astronaut Harrison Schmitt on how we should manage climate change. Not only is he a former astronaut, but he was a member of the U.S. Senate for a term. I met Dr. Schmitt on two different occasions. One was after a lecture when I was studying chemistry at Henderson St. University. It was just a year or two after his trip to the Moon. The second time was after a lecture in the Geology Dept. at the University of Tennessee in 2002. Schmitt was the only true scientist (geologist) in the early groups of astronauts for NASA.

Wafer-Thin Plastic Stores Electricity

Researchers in the UK have developed a wafer-thin piece of plastic (actually a supercapacitor) that will eventually replace batteries, even in hybrid automobiles. Think of what this could do for personal electronics.

USA's Wind Energy Potential Triples in New Estimate

Thanks to new wind energy generation technology, there has been a big jump in the potential of wind energy in this country. Last year 10 gigawatts was installed in the US bringing the total to 35 gigawatts. The newer technology means fewer actual numbers of windmills are needed as compared to what was installed a couple of decades ago.

I'm surprised that northwest Ohio is not considered a good site for wind farms.

Sonic Boom at a Recent Atlas Launch

Pet Care After The Rapture

I could not resist posting this link on a very unusual business idea. This could be the start of a whole new industry.

World May Not Be Warming After All

It appears that local factors such as land development may have created a misleading interpretation of global temperatures according to Prof. John Christy who has been a lead author on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Jet Fuel From Algae

The Pentagon claims it is just months away from making jet fuel from algae at a cost comparable to that of fossil fuels. There could be a big benefit for civilians on the highways and streets down the road.

From MacBook to Personal Seismograph

If you have MacBook or MacBook Pro, here is a place to get some freeware that turns your laptop into your own personal seismograph. Pretty cool.

US Solar Market To Double In The Next Year

Solar installation could double reaching the gigawatt level in the next year in the USA. This is definitely headed in the right direction. The production of plentiful, cheap power in this country could do a lot for getting the economy out of the doldrums. It would be great to see some true business and political leadership help bring this on.

Apple and AT&T

Apple seems to have this thing for AT&T. The new iPad will tax the AT&T network even more. I would like to see some healthy competition push the telecommunications industry to provide more bandwidth and lower costs.

What Does A Trillion Dollars Look Like?

Click here.

The US taxpayer is now on the hook for about $13 trillion and there is no principle being paid, only interest. I would speculate that this will not work out all that well for our personal finances.

Moon Created By Nuclear Explosion?

More speculation on the origin of the moon which involves a natural georeactor. The idea of a georeactor seems to make more sense the more we learn about planetary evolution.

Natural Accelerators in Earth's Atmosphere

The Earth has already been known to have it's own natural nuclear reactors, now it has been found to have it's own natural particle accelerators. Whats next?

The Future Of The USA's Manned Space Flight Program

The Obama Administration is about to make some big changes to NASA's manned space flight plans. The moon mission is about to be scrapped. Money is the issue. The new direction is to be announced this next week and this article in Popular Mechanics give some background information.

How Does the Body Defend Against Diseases?

How are your antibodies doing?

A Venus Flytrap Type Material for Nuclear Waste

The could be a big breakthrough for the nuclear waste remediation industry if can be successfully proven in the real world.

Pat Metheny Update

Looks like Pat Metheny is about to go on tour again and this time he is being backed up by a robotic band. Pat has always been cutting edge with his version of jazz instrumentation. Be sure to watch the video.

3-D Kicks Into High Gear

Just this past week ESPN announced the premier of ESPN-3D this summer. Disney and Discover will roll out their 3-D channels in 2011.

The success of Avatar has been the catalyst. Now the movie studios are paying for the conversion of previous releases to 3-D format. It is not clear to me how this is done since the original filming was not done with 3-D cameras as was Avatar.

It appears that some HD TVs in the stores now are considered as 3-D ready. Obviously, these TVs are HD. It will be interesting to see when or if conversion devices will be available for purchase for the HD TVs we already own.

Some History: The Manhattan Project

Here is a four part history of the Manhattan Project written by Bob Weinstein of the Troy Media Corp. The legacy of the Manhattan Project include the Cold War and numerous environmental cleanup projects across the United States. The cleanup effort will not end for at least two or three more decades or until the federal government stops printing money.

Fructose Is Poison

This doctor is telling the truth about the cause of obesity and diabetes in our culture. An the Nixon Administration is at the heart of it. Really! Cut out the soft drinks, candy and anything else containing fructose. It is not all that easy anymore thanks to the effort to produce cheap food. The medical debate in this country is missing a key component. It all starts with what we eat.

Tooth Soap

I've been using Tooth Soap for about 5 years and I'm quite pleased with the results. By not coating your teeth with the glycerin that is contained in most toothpastes, your teeth have a chance to replace the enamel coating which protects our teeth from decay. I receive no compensation from this recommendation but just wanted to share this product to promote good health.

Pushing Back on Big Business - What You Can Do

Here are some interesting tips on how to start the new year in the right direction by getting back at the corporate jackals that have been jerking us around.

Crude is the New Carbon

It is becoming more critical for getting a flex-fuel standard in place and developing a new industry of 'growing' our own alternative liquid fuel. The coming onslaught of gasoline burning in developing countries is about to become a problem for all of us petroleum users in the USA.

AT&T Looking Into Going Totally Wireless

It appears that AT&T is studying a plan to cut the cord on analog communication technology, literally. This seems to be happening faster that I would have predicted. I'm wondering how this will affect fiber optic infrastructure.