the accurate prediction of the end of times

In the final fatal battle with the wolf the vikings predicted the death of their gods. And therein lies the clue to interpreting the prophesies of the end of the world ~ Odin,… Read More →

Christopher Columbus and the North Star

The sun and stars are the oldest clocks in the world, for those who know how to use them, and for sailors they are maps in the sky. Columbus found the Caribbean (while looking… Read More →

Plagiarism – a new and profitable idea whose time has come ~ Tic Toc

In 1965 Harlan Ellison wrote Repent Harlequin in 6 hours. It won the Hugo and Nebula awards. Some say it’s one of the best short stories ever written. The list of competition, if… Read More →

Are there footprints on the moon? she asked. Her questions were as big as her imagination

some say it was a hoax others say we have the rocks are there footprints in the dust where spacemen went for walks? “I don’t think many people remember what life was like… Read More →

did world war II serve a higher purpose? Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro – the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Today in history. 49 years ago… On October 14th, 1962 an American Air Force pilot flew a U-2 plane over Cuba to take a few photographs of life in a Caribbean country controlled… Read More →

what is “normal”? Ten lost lessons from a non-fiction novelist

In this post we’ll take a look far into a past which most of us have forgotten – what normal is. Our basic understanding of it was lost simply because, step by step,… Read More →

Kurt Vonnegut, World War II and a tale of three cities

“When I was a younger man – two wives ago, 250,000 cigarettes ago, 3,000 quarts of booze ago… When I was a much younger man, I began to collect material for a book… Read More →

the last lift off of Atlantis

Last week was the last landing for the space shuttle Atlantis. With no more shuttle launches to come here’s a look at lift offs and space walks of yesterday.                                   Trivia question: How much… Read More →

religion and reality – part I – God and Galileo

 Galileo Galilei was born in Pisa, Italy. One day it came to his attention that there was a problem in the sky which needed to be straightened out. This eye for detail eventual… Read More →

enemies elevate you

It’s obvious that enemies cause troubles. It’s less obvious that they improve your life. When you understand the greater purpose of enemies you can move in harmony with those difficult events. In 1969,… Read More →

pink is for boys

When we think of pink, we think of girls, valentines’ day, or just plain love. But in nature the most common example of pink is a pig. Do you still feel the love? In North America, at the beginning of the 1900’s, pink… Read More →