Galileo

Galileo

In the early 1600’s Galileo Galilei, with help from his improved telescope and his predecessor, Copernicus, proved that our Earth revolved on its axis and also revolved around the Sun. He was not adequately rewarded for his meticulously accurate scientific...
Could Time be an Illusion

Could Time be an Illusion

We find ourselves on the edge of a vortex! We are space travelers without space suits hovering on the fringes of a black hole, most of us hoping that we won’t be pulled in. For the most part, we are not scientists after all. Even the scientists among us are holding...
Government Waste

Government Waste

Elon Musk knows how to do political theater, but the intended rhetorical message is way off base. Yes, the government in my beloved country, America, is wasteful and inefficient, but the chainsaw approach is the wrong idea. You don’t fix the plane with a chainsaw when...
L’état c’est moi

L’état c’est moi

Now that Donald J. Trump is officially our president once again, we are confronted by two distinct possibilities. Will his blitzkrieg on inefficient and wasteful government and government spending turn out to be the set of reforms of which our beloved country has so...
Jetson Orin NANO

Jetson Orin NANO

In the world of high-tech computing, breakthroughs do not come from scaling up. They come from scaling down. Everybody is always talking about game changers. The $249 Jetson Orin “supercomputer” by NVIDIA will be one. It is powerful, cheap, and small...