Vivek Ramaswamy accused the other Republican debaters of being “Bought and Paid for”. He was trying to create a perception that he is an outsider. Being seen as an outsider is a surefire vote-getter for a Republican candidate because many Republicans are generally fed...

CNN's Gary Tuchman interviewed a focus group of Republican caucus-goers and Young Republican voters in Iowa after the first debate. First question: “How many thought tonight’s debate was good for the Republican party?” By my count four did not raise their hands. A man...

I finally finished the 700-page biography of Robert Oppenheimer, American Prometheus. Oppenheimer led the Manhattan Project that first developed the Atomic Bomb. Afterwards, he was persecuted and spied upon by an ungrateful government because he advocated a thoughtful...

My wife complains about humidity in the summertime. I generally pretend that I don’t know what she is talking about, but now scientists are working on removing that source of irritation from her environment while creating energy out of thin air at the same time. The...

On this date in 1945 my brother was born. Also, Robert Oppenheimer, his team of physicists, the American military, and the American government under Harry Truman dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. I watched the movie Oppenheimer recently and am currently...

I recently watched the movie, Oppenheimer, and I am now reading the book, American Prometheus.  One inescapable message presents itself: We have been living in the Atomic Age for almost 100 years. Some will think it premature to say that we are entering a new Age, the...

We all know that the first attempts to harness nuclear energy for electricity have gone awry in Russia, Japan, and here in the United States. However, smaller and more efficient nuclear reactors using different and more advanced technology are on the horizon. As a...

The American Prometheus is a recent biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer. The movie Oppenheimer comes out in Imax on Friday. I am looking forward to reading the book and watching the film. The title of the book makes an appropriate allusion to Prometheus, the mythical...

Most kids have an app to distort human faces into bunny rabbits or trolls. They find it amusing and they may be doing themselves a favor. They are desensitizing themselves to a real problem that we will all face in the very near future, the Uncanny Valley. The Uncanny...

The Supreme Court of the US finished up a session with three significant decisions, each of which will be discussed briefly below. First, however, take a look at the cartoon above which accurately depicts the current situation with a slightly more conservative and...