June 17, 2013

Out of the Ice Age

According to the best scientific minds, the earth is 4.54 ± 0.05 billion years old. And since its beginning, the earth has experienced at least five major ice ages, i.e. the Huronian, Cryogenian, Andean-Saharan, Karoo Ice Age and the current Quatern...

March 22, 2013

A budget system designed for deficits

Once upon a time in America, a progressive couple discovered they were in dire financial straits.  In hopes they could change their slide toward insolvency, they sought guidance from their successful conservative neighbor.  The neighbor as...

December 31, 2012

The Hydrogen Utopia

Ever since Sir Thomas More wrote his Utopia, the term has meant a society of such perfection that it can be found only in man's imagination.  In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, when utopian movements were popular, secular utopian commun...