Friday, March 29, 2019

Goals, Fears, and Peers: Reflections on Admiral Hyman Rickover

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This oped of mine first appeared in the National Board Bulletin , here . ==== Alongside a dock in Groton, Connecticut, is a floati...
Sunday, July 22, 2018

The Lecture I Never Gave

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I've probably given my last lecture on the subject matter of Inviting Disaster . But I can't complain: that totals over fifty talks ...
Monday, April 2, 2018

Felled by the Falcon: Harrison Ford's 2014 accident at Pinewood Studios

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Watching Blade Runner 2049 on DVD, with Harrison Ford's return to the Rick Deckard role, reminded me to check on the last word about th...
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 ...