Back when I was a hippie (for three hours in 1968) I thought the American Civil Liberties Union was pretty cool.  They seemed to always jump to the defense of the underdog, but over the years they seemed to have decided that justice was something for their big supporters and

My wife and I have different sensibilities to heat and cold.  She get warm very easily, a trait which has increased with age, while my sinuses do not do well with Air Conditioning.   Consequently, every summer she asks me to haul in the huge window unit and get it

Everyone has a favorite line from the movie Jaws and, for a lot of people it’s when Roy Scheider sees the shark for the first time and says, “We’re going to need a bugger boat.  Well, just such a thing happened this week in Australia when a sixty year olf

Fortunately, the science of medicine keeps pushing forward. For every real breakthrough, there are countless failures, hundred of experiments, and thousands of hours of study.  Here are some of the things on the health horizon (you like that alliteration there – health horizon?  I could add to it say happy

First, let’s watch a video that expounds on just how amazing the Great Pyramid really is—and why it still ranks as a true Wonder of the World. The Great Pyramid of Giza (also known as the Pyramid of Khufu or the Pyramid of Cheops) is the oldest and largest of

Despite continuing breakthroughs in technology and the new wealth of information that it continually provides there is still much we can learn from the past. A major key to unlocking that information involves deciphering historic languages, code and sybols.  The ancients recorded their knowledge on scrolls, artifacts, and even cave

Everyone knows that guys like gadgets, whether for fun or for self-preservation. And when tech combines with tactical, it’s just cool. These days, with natural disasters seemingly on the rise and the threat of worldwide terrorism growing, keeping tactical gadgets handy is more than cool. It might be a necessary

So how does that line in “Stairway to Heaven” go?  It’s the last line of the Led Zeppelin classic and it is presented as the solution to the maddening  hypocrisy of the woman trying to buy a stairway to heaven.  In the song we are told that: There’s a lady

That thing that looks like a football in museum curator Erich Fitzgerald’s hands is actually a five-million-year-old tooth. Fossil hunter Murray Orr found the mighty chomper back in February. The 30cm-long (12 inch) chomper was found by fossil enthusiast Murray Orr, who happened upon it in February while walking on a beach at

Most of us have heard a great deal about the Shroud of Turin but how many know about the Sudarium of Oviedo. While the Shroud was the linen garment that was laid over the body of Jesus in the tomb, the Sudarium was the cloth wrapped around the head of