It seems insane these days to think so but…it almost happened. In a race for nuclear supremacy during the cold war, The United States once considered this action as a deterrent to the Soviet Union according to a physicist involved in the plan. Although the 1950s era U.S. Air Force top-secret Project A119, entitled “A Study [...]
Some fifty years ago Stanley Lloyd Miller, an American chemist and biologist known for his studies in the origins of life, set aside some experimental samples that may have been able to provide him a breakthrough in his field. Miller, who passed in 2007, was famous for his 1953 Miller-Urey experiment. The experiment showed the [...]
I grew up in the age where black and white TV was the rage, 45 and 33 rpm records ruled, and high school typing class was, well, on a typewriter. What has happened to me over the last 40 years? I’ll tell you what has happened…I am a plugged-in, cyber surfing, tweeting, online shopping, Facebook [...]
If you have ever read Isaac Asimov’s “I, Robot”, you are fully aware that at times, humans can have a few difficulties interacting with them. We expect them to behave in certain ways and when they don’t meet our expectations; our wrath is unrestrictedly directed upon them. I recently had just such a confrontation while [...]