Category Archives: science

Flying With The Windows Down

September 28, 2012 – 7:53 pm

Last Monday a small electrical fire forced the airplane carrying Mitt Romney’s wife to make an emergency landing in Denver. The passengers escaped from the stricken jet without injury and later on stage at a political rally the GOP presidential candidate expressed his relief that his wife was safe and then said, “When you have […]

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Ray Bradbury RIP

June 8, 2012 – 11:02 am

In 1953 Ray Bradbury wrote FAHRENHEIT 451 at a rented room at UCLA’s Powell Library. The total cost for rent and typewriter was $9.80. The title was in reference to the temperature at which paper ie a book is combustible. “In writing the short novel Fahrenheit 451 I thought I was describing a world that […]

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Voyage to the Bottom of the Ocean

March 26, 2012 – 5:40 pm

James Cameron is one of Hollywood’s biggest earners. His two films TITANIC and AVATAR grossed billions and Avatar CS MONITOR. His 2010 income was reported to top $250 million and a man with that much money can appease his every whim. The famed director has answered the call of the deep ocean by descending to […]

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Robot Rules Of Love

November 2, 2011 – 10:47 am

The Laws of Robotics were written by science fiction author Isaac Asimov in his story I ROBOT. 1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. 2. A robot must obey orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict […]

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