Over the years, my wife and I have lived in a lot of different places.

In fact, we’ve lived in more than 30 different apartments, mobile homes and houses.

And that includes over 10 years in one house in the Frostbite State, and more than 8 years in our current home in the Sunshine State.

A few of our most memorable homes were a [more...]

Almost 26 years ago, in a research paper that I wrote about the future of education, I predicted that, in the future, people would connect computers to their brains.

One result would be quantum leaps in many fields, including education, entertainment, medicine, philosophy, arts, psychology and interpersonal communictions.

Regular readers know that, a couple of years ago, researchers finally [more...]

It’s a huge undertaking when humans build a dam to hold back a river.

Both from an engineering standpoint, as well as from an environmental one.

A dam can cause incalculable, permanent effects on wildlife, ecosystems and topology.

But, every once in awhile, humans change their [more...]

Leave it to the Japanese to think of clever new, environmentally friendly technologies.

Maybe it’s an example of necessity being the mother of invention — when your country consists of more than 130 million people squeezed onto a few tiny islands, you’re sort of forced to think of clever new, environmentally friendly technologies.

Here’s an example of one of those technologies: a new motorcycle that will [more...]

A technology company has announced that it is going to build a brand new, 20-square-mile town in New Mexico, “to test everything from renewable energy innovations to intelligent traffic systems, next-generation wireless networks and smart-grid cyber security systems.”

“Pegasus Global Holdings CEO Bob Brumley says the $200 million project, known as The Center, will be a first of its kind in the U.S., creating a place for scientists at the [more...]

Where I live, here in the Sunshine State, this summer’s weather has been great — for plants.

And for people who don’t mind changing their clothes at least a couple times each day.

It seems like we’ve had alternating sunlight and heavy thunderstorms every day for the past couple of months. [more...]

Eight years ago, I came to the conclusion that the existence of stainless steel cleaner is a metaphor for life.

On a related note, take a look around your home, and you’ll see plenty of need for chemical products — for cleaning, killing, shining, and various other duties.

But, unless you’ve researched the subject, you may not have realized that there are cheaper, safer, greener [more...]

Have you ever wanted to be left alone?

Not just alone in the sense that Amish communities and cloistered nuns are alone.

But in the sense that no one even knows that you exist.

Well, it turns out that [more...]