29th April 2009
The United Nation's has just ruled that the continued detention of Myanmar's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi legally violates the country's own laws as well as those of the international community.
Of course, the legal opinion of the United Natio...
09th April 2009
The average solar cycle lasts for eleven years. The cycle includes a minimum of solar activity and a maximum. The sun is unusually quiet right now and has been for some time but there should be an increase in solar activity at some point in the near futur...
30th March 2009
He was a scientist that predicted the current lack of sunspot activity in cycle 24 and the prospect of much colder times ahead. The climate experts of the time predicted a cycle 24 sunspot maximum as high as those in the preceding cycles but that was not ...
01st December 2008
In 1974, there was a futuristic television show called The Six Million Dollar Man. The popular show ran for four years and featured the adventures of astronaut, Steve Austin (Lee Majors). The show began with the astronaut near death but with science ficti...
01st December 2008
It is really only a matter of time. Maybe next month, but probably sometime later next year. Still, the end result is all too clear. Sooner or later there will be a bankruptcy filing for General Motors. The auto giant, that once controlled more than half ...
31st October 2008
Fear and emotion are the rule every day in the global financial markets. We have seen shock and awe financial bailout plans, the overnight consolidation of many troubled financial services giants, and a liquidity crisis that impacts markets across the glo...
31st October 2008
Three hundred feet below the ground in a seventeen mile long circular tunnel on the border of France and Switzerland is the home of an eight billion dollar machine that took more than twenty years to build.
In fact, this complex machine was designed t...
01st September 2008
Most major international stock indices are dropping fast. In fact, stock markets in Asia, the United Kingdom, and Europe have all now seen the fury of the bear. A bear market is generally defined as a drop of twenty percent from the market's previous high...
01st September 2008
The honey bee continues to disappear at a dramatic rate worldwide. Many beekeepers estimate that, at the current rate of bee loss, there now may be only a ten year window to find a cause and a cure for this malady. In fact, the British Beekeepers Associat...
21st May 2008
There is a long history of the use of the honey bee in war. Roman catapults, with bee hives as projectiles, unleashed the fury of angry bees on an advancing enemy. Bee hives booby trapped to topple over with trip wires were used to the advantage of both s...
18th April 2008
2012 will be a very interesting year. The United States will have a Presidential election. Across the world, elections will also be held in France, Mexico, and Ireland. The Freedom Tower will be completed in New York. The Summer Olympic games will be held...
18th April 2008
In 2008, products that contain lead continue to arrive from China and appear everyday on American store shelves. The purchase of many of these products can result in a variety of potential health risks to the unsuspecting consumer. The danger inherent in ...
18th April 2008
Imagine a time in the near future when you enter a mall for a day of shopping. As you enter that mall, a tiny RFID scanner near the entrance captures the pulse from the hidden RFID tag sewn into the jacket that you are wearing. The information captured b...
16th April 2008
Data from public opinion polls indicate that nearly fifty million people would like to visit space. In fact as many as two million people each year would take the journey beyond the outer limits of Earth’s gravity. The public's fascination with space tr...
16th April 2008
The 2008 Summer Olympic Games and events in Beijing are still several months away. However, sad and disturbing world headlines concerning China and these Olympic Games are everywhere. Last week the Chinese government reported that air pollution in Beijing...
