It is a New Year. Finally.
New Year’s. In our modern United States culture, it is a night and day of partying, staying up to late, watching football, eating too much food, drinking too much booze […]
SommerNights
The Star
“In the time of King Herod, after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea, wise men from the East came to Jerusalem, asking, “Where is the child who has been […]
A Cosmic Influence
Twenty years ago today, Carl Sagan passed away from a cancer-related blood disease, myelodysplasia. If you know ANYTHING about twentieth century astrophysics, you know who Dr. Sagan was and what […]
Isolationism in the Age of Airplanes
This morning I boarded a flight from Fargo to Albuquerque, New Mexico, bound for a short three-day certification class for my full time job. It was o-dark-thirty when I arrived […]
Been a Long Week
It has been a long week. President-Elect Trump. How did we get here? What did we do? Where are we going? Will we ever be the same? Do we fear […]
To Boldly Go…Part I
“Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its continuing mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly […]
Trek
Some of you may know I am a sci-fi nut. While my knowledge of television and film is not encyclopedic, it does spread over a wide range of shows and […]
Candidates Fire First Shots on The Same Stage
Earlier this evening the aircraft carrier Intrepid, now a museum in New York harbor, hosted the Democratic and Republican candidates for President. It wasn’t a debate, since they didn’t go […]
Labor Day
Today is Labor Day. It is not a day to mark the end of summer, time to have a BBQ, or a simply a day off of work. First enacted […]
The Cost of Human Supremacy
We are not the supreme species on planet Earth, not by a long shot. From a geological timespan point of view, we are relative newcomers. Less than 3 million years […]