Technopolis

This amusing billboard via the Undernews blog.  The sad fact is that America has long been influenced by those who say they receive mess...

                                                                                                     Job growth In its typically austere...

Savage Rose was a Danish rock band of the late 1960s and 1970s.  In my opinion, they were far superior to most American rockers of that ...

From the BBC (with video demonstration) :   "A Glasgow-based company has installed its first commercial "alkaline hydrolysis...

Obama’s supporters are restless.  A good number of them feel he’s bending over backwards to placate his right wing Republican and extreme T...

                              The boys and their high tech toys at a Homeland Security trade fair While the poor, disabled, elderly, stude...

The news today quotes several leading economists predicting a "return to recession."  When I hear pronouncements of that sort I...

                                                          Will you still be my friend? A web research outfit, Globalwebindex , has publish...

At a robotics industry trade show in Washington, D.C. recently one of the corporate vendors, AEE Technology based in Shenzhen, China, unvei...

  Report : As PCs Wane, Companies Look to Tablets "Computer makers are expected to ship only about 4 percent more PCs this year...

So here I am doing the finishing touches on my fall course, "Science Fiction Cinema and Social Criticism," when along come this s...

As students receive the letter saying "Congratulations, you've been admitted to" the college, university or graduate school o...

About 40 years ago an unused military base in the middle of Copenhagen was occupied (squatted) by a group of Danish free spirits who began ...

Several years ago a writer sent me a pre-publication copy of a book on what was then a little known phenomenon: the flash mob.  Many aspect...

    How a volcano works                                                                                                          ...

One of the most admirable political figures of our time, Aung San Suu Kyi, pro-democracy leader of Burma, has given two wonderful Reith Lec...

I've been reading in newspapers and on the Net to identify the key points in the job creation plans of the Democrats and Republicans.  ...

Moderate oligarchy   Extreme theocratic oligarchy Don’t tell the mass media, but the presidential race for 2012 is turning ou...

The Pew Research Center's work is always thorough and reliable.  Its new study shows email and search tied as the most common internet a...

The day after I stood cheering with a million and a half people standing in the Mall at Obama's inauguration, I walked to Capitol Hill ...

"To the Syrian people: The world stands with you against the brutal regime of Bashar Al-Assad. Know that time and history are on your...

At the top of a growing list of dysfunctional institutions in America would certainly be our public schools.  Among the the most recent and...

We all know that Barack Obama strongly believes in compromise.  He emphasizes that point repeatedly.  But many of his supporters are wonder...

It's becoming a familiar scene in news coverage of world events on the Internet: scenes of riots, burning cars and buildings, clashes b...

Recently there have been a number of articles and opinion pieces in European newspapers and magazines lamenting the political and economic ...

To an increasing extent, today's discussions of economics and public policy resemble the cargo cults   on Pacific islands of the 19th a...

The goal is the same -- after depicting the President as a weak, ineffective man, bring him down! This strategy worked be...

                                  Murals at  a New Deal era post office in Modesto, California Cultural historian Gray Brechin, head of th...

From a gift shop in Shanghai comes the Maobama T-shirt, also available on coffee mugs and other merchandise.  This would have been a lot mo...

As a little boy in the middle 1950s , I visited Glacier Park with my parents who'd grown up in Montana and knew terrain well.  There we...

After many years of taking part in discussions about technology in education, I decided to offer my views in a satirical lecture, "Intr...

While traveling in China recently, I happened upon my old buddy and alter ego, L.C. Winner, CEO of EDUSHAM -- Educational Smart Hardware...