Joseph Lyvers, pictured above with his wife Marsha,  has excelled in a lengthy career as an aerospace engineer, but though he himself doesn’t use the term, some of his work for Hughes and Caltech could be described by a phrase that requires so much brain power it has become synonymous

When I was in Catholic grade school the nuns used to smack me around a lot, but the verbal abuse was a lot worse. “Jesus doesn’t like you,” my second grade teacher told me, “because you don’t obey!” For year after those four years in Catholic Grade school, I thought