Tuesday, January 30, 2018
Heads Up: Finally a good prospect for finding MH370
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If the hulk of MH370 ever turns up, I'm convinced it will be soon. Perhaps within weeks, because a new subsea effort is underway and it...
Friday, January 19, 2018
Anomalous: The interstellar object of October 2017
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As readers might have guessed, I love the idea of humans crossing the interstellar void, even if it takes ten thousand years to get anywhere...
Saturday, January 6, 2018
Origin of the "Streisand Effect": Tales of the Chopper
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Many articles came out last week about Michael Wolff's Fire and Fury book ... http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/01/michael-wol...
Saturday, December 23, 2017
Tales of the Chopper: Mind that tail rotor
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Feature writing on technology has taken me to a lot of strange places. One was riding aboard a Hughes 500 with a very skilled crew, working ...
Heavy haulers at the Amtrak derailment site
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Thinking about the Amtrak derailment at DuPont, Washington, last week. The latest i nformation suggests the engineer took the train into a v...
Monday, July 17, 2017
Voter turnout: Boosting participation the American way
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Problem: American voter turnout is abysmal, trailing most Western democracies . (Photo: Nick Cote for NYT). And it's worse in off-year e...
Sunday, April 2, 2017
Crisis on the K13: World's first technical-innovation rescue (1917)
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For a recent speaking engagement, wanting to feature a high-performance team in action, I devoted the second half of my talk to the emergenc...
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