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Evolve! Survive! Read!

Enjoying  thrillers and romances, watching Brad Pitt slay zombies and Superman falling for Lois Lane are all cultural aspects of human evolution that are rooted in Darwinian survival of the species, according to a new study from Concordia University: Cultural products have evolutionary roots. Marketing professor Gad Saad says evolution has hard-wired humans to be […]

The International Science People Found Me After 47 Years

Back in 1966, I won several prizes for my solar flux rocket engine and proton accelerator at the International Science Fair in Dallas. That was 46 years ago. Fast forward to late May and Intel has assumed the mantel of looking around the globe for other budding scientists (see letter below). And somehow, in some […]

Memorial Day Tribute For An American Hero Who Shaped My Life

  AIR FORCE LT.COL A. L. “BUDDY” BARNER. (WGFP) ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY MEMORIAL SERVICE (click for images) Five years ago tomorrow, we buried an American hero who shaped my life. Lt. Col. A.L. “Buddy” Barner (World’s Greatest Fighter Pilot-Click for more) was a fighter pilot in Korea and Vietnam, a test pilot between wars who […]

The Spy Who Came In To The Gold

Joe Montana could sit down and tell me, show me everything he knows. And I’d never be a Montana-league quarterback. I’m a lot better writer than I am a quarterback, and I’ve studied everything about John leCarre’, read everything, analyzed, examined and studied myself to death. And, while my writing may have benefited from that, […]

Israel Boycott Hypocritical, Supports Terrorism, Oppression

The news that astrophysicist Stephen Hawking is supporting the boycott against Israel shows that he — like a lot of other academics and political elites — is very intelligent but lacking in common sense and a solid grasp of reality. The leaders of both Palestine entities support terrorism, suppress freedom of speech and religion, deny […]

What The Argo Movie Got Wrong About Shredded Documents

I hate to say that I taught a bunch of Iranian thugs how to reconstitute the shredded documents they found after looting the American Embassy in Tehran. But I did. It wasn’t a bunch of little carpet weavers as one story goes, or child labor as Argo played it. Nope. Turns out to be my […]

Fake MacBook Power Supply Self-Destructs

My computer is my writing tool. So, when Microsoft finally scored an own-goal with Windows 8, I solved my  problem late last year by buying a MacBook. This after nothing but DOS, then Windows machines since 1984. I take the MacBook everywhere, so I needed a second power brick to travel. The charger at the […]

Cover-Up: Why The FAA Is Wrong When It Says Airplanes Are Not Hackable

The Federal Aviation Administration is wrong and either misinformed or involved in a cover-up when it says hackers can’t take over a modern aircraft: Authorities dismiss alleged airplane hijack hack. If you click on that link, please read the comments. They are far more intelligent, thoughtful and  illuminating than the FAA’s. Truth is that neither […]

Hijacking Airplanes With A Phone: So 3 Years Ago!

Hijacking airplanes with an Android phone is SO three years ago! Why? Because this thriller, Die By Wire details an even more effective way to do this. I wrote it more than three years ago. I was published in December 2011. The following two links will offer more insight into the hack that goes far […]

Sikhs Continue To Lead The Way In Religious Tolerance

“SIKHS built four doors to the Golden Temple at Amritsar, in north India, to welcome believers from all four corners of their earth. But in the five centuries since, few religions have followed that tolerant example. Hindus and Muslims fight fiercely over religious ruins in ancient Ayodhya. Christians have long wrangled among themselves, and with […]