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Anne: Lady in Autumn

January 9, 2015
I am sitting here in Anne's hospital room reflecting on the forty-five years of our marriage and all she has accomplished and all she has given. She lies beside me sleeping. Mostly now, that's what she does. Her body is... continued

The Reality behind Interstellar–Not What You’d Expect

December 8, 2014
I have been thinking long and hard about the close encounter experience and what it means. For some months now, I've been working on a new book that has caused me to re-read and re-think all of my past experiences, and... continued

Something Wicked This Way Comes

October 6, 2014
We have reached the climate tipping point much more quickly than anybody anticipated. But with methane outgassing in arctic tundra and beginning to boil up from under the Arctic Ocean, Greenland ice turning black due to lack of snowfall, and rapid... continued

An Extremely Dangerous Time

September 8, 2014
It's no secret that this particular anniversary of 911 is as dangerous a time as we have faced in years. ISIL has recruited possibly more than a thousand people carrying US passports, who can enter and leave this country at... continued

The Methane Danger

August 28, 2014
This is a journal entry I hoped I would never have to write. For most of my career, I have been fighting to prevent this, to slow it down or at least to plan for it. What is happening is... continued

Margot Adler’s Passing

August 6, 2014
As Anne has written in her diary, our friend of 30 years, Margot Adler, has died. She was one of the most alive, delightful and delighted human beings I have ever met. Margot could be serious and go deep, but... continued

Vladimir Putin’s Dark Dreams

July 27, 2014
If Vladimir Putin had personally ordered the shoot-down of Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 last week, events could not have played into his hands more perfectly. In fact, the result has been so valuable to Putin, that it seems possible that... continued

Where is Everybody?

July 7, 2014
In 1975, a paper by physicist Michael Hart inspired Enrico Fermi to ask the question: where is everybody? He asked it because of the silence of the universe around us--no radio signals, nobody coming in for a landing, indeed, nobody... continued

Flight 370: Greater Danger than Ever

June 23, 2014
The fate of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 has disappeared from the news cycle, but Malaysian police have announced that the reconstruction of data from the pilot's flight simulator suggests that he flew it into the southern Indian Ocean and may... continued

Reaping the Whirlwind

June 12, 2014
The al-Qaeda-connected group ISIS (Islamic State Iraq and the Levant) have taken Mosul and Tikrit, Iraq's second and third cities, and may well take the whole country in a matter of months. At the same time, the group is rushing... continued