Regular readers may remember that I’ve discussed it before — the pollution problems caused by the fact that nearly all of the world’s plastics take hundreds or even thousands of years to finally biodegrade.

And burning it produces even more pollution — some of it deadly.

But here’s some good news: “Akinori Ito, the CEO of Blest, a Japanese company, has somewhat of a panacea. [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...]

Yes, I remember the first manned moon landing — like it happened 41 years ago this past week.

Friends of my parents, George and Marge Samels (what ever happened to them?), had recently moved to Kentucky, so my family had made the trip down to see them.

I sat on their living room floor, [more...]

The Sunshine State is a wonderful place to live if you like a lot of sunshine.

And you hate cold weather.

And you can tolerate a lot of heat and humidity in the summer.

But it’s an especially great place to live if you [more...]

If you’re a regular reader of this Journal, you’ve probably been called a “nerd” at least a few times.

And if you’re a real nerd — at least the male type — there’s a good chance that you were beat up one or more times in school.

By a bully. [more...]