They started talking about using full-body security scanners in airports a few years ago.

Even though they told us that the security personnel who would be viewing the completely nude images of airline passengers would be highly trained, and the imaging machines would not be capable of storing those images, many of us were outraged at the idea. [more...]

We all know that we live in an era of astounding technological change.

Many of the technologies that we take for granted every day might have been considered miracles when our parents were young; completely unimaginable when our grandparents were young — and witchcraft when their grandparents were young.

For example, if it weren’t for [more...]

Chances are, you’ve seen many photographs of them.

You may have even seen some of them in person.

Their completely bleached-out skin and lack of eyeballs give them a very unique look. [more...]

This morning, a good friend of mine died.

I met James in January of 2004. He was the maintenance man at the trailer park where my wife and our pets and I lived for 6 months when we first moved to the Sunshine State.

Everyone in the park knew him and he was [more...]

Because color photography wasn’t widely used until the latter part of the last century, every photograph we ever see of World War II and older events is in black and white.

That makes it easy to erroneously imagine that people back then somehow lived their lives in black and white.

And that can cause us to feel “disconnected” from [more...]