In a Strange Land

At this time of a renewed Space Race with China, to get to the Moon's South Pole, we might want to look backward a bit. In the late 50s ...

For many years, a good deal of digital ink has been spilled about the end of reading. Lately, however, I found compelling the statistics in ...

A while back at my Tractorpunk blog, I wrote about why we should choose, if we can, to buy an older vehicle and learn to make our own repair...

I greatly enjoy studying military history. It's less pleasant looking at ongoing conflicts, because they represent failures of diplomacy...

I got an F in Thermodynamics, shortly before I flunked out of UVA's Aerospace Engineering program. So I leave matters such as cooling sa...