Saturday, January 31, 2015

Politics and the Inverse Square Law

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The farther you are from something, the less you know about. In physics, this applies to the force of gravity, to electro-static attraction...
Sunday, January 25, 2015

Your Cell Phone is Not Safe

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Your cell phone can be taken over by hackers who will view through your camera and watch you enter your passwords and other information.  H...
Friday, January 16, 2015

Tycoon Dough is Democratic

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Today's "Great Debate" from Reuters online was a one-sided argument about the effect of "uber-rich tycoons" on our d...
Wednesday, January 14, 2015

The Perfect Machine

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“Putting the observer inside the telescope had obvious advantages.”   The Perfect Machine: Building the Palomar Telescope  by Ronald Floren...
Wednesday, January 7, 2015

Je suis Charlie

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Friday, January 2, 2015

Kale, Oats, and Mai Tais

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Kale is a superfood, loaded with nutrition, lacking bad stuff.   Kale is unfortunately tough, bitter, and generally difficult to eat. Cooki...
Thursday, January 1, 2015

A Chronology of Recent Historical Periods

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We like our history neat. The western Roman empire ended on September 4, 476, when Odoacer deposed Romulus Augustus and declared himself ki...
Tuesday, December 30, 2014

A Successful Imitation of Alan Turing

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“Sometimes it is the people no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine.”   The take-away line from The Imitation...
Monday, December 29, 2014

Getting Published: Advice to a New Author

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Happy Holidays, Richard! I wrote two books because the publisher found me. As an author myself - magazine articles, mostly - I ha...