2019-02-17
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Where is Everybody?
July 7, 2014In 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, 2014The 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, 2014The 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
Illegal Computer Entries
April 20, 2014On the night of Thursday, April 17, an entry from an outside source was recorded on this computer. I observed it as they explored recently updated files. Despite the fact that the most advanced monitoring software available to the public... continued
The Inability to Find Flight 370 is Very Worrisome
April 11, 2014I remain extremely concerned that Flight 370 is not being found. I worry that the reason is that it isn't in the Indian Ocean at all, and that the pings that are being heard there are due to some other... continued
Flight 370: The Beginning of a Terror Attack, not the End
March 15, 2014I believe that Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 was either hijacked or experienced an extremely unusual mechanical problem of some kind. If it was hijacked, which is the more likely probability, then it wasn’t done to destroy the plane but to... continued
Superstorm, Climate Change and the Future
February 17, 2014When I published Nature's End in 1985, I was laughed at by environmental reporters at a press conference in Washington. When Art Bell and I published Superstorm in 1999, Matt Lauer scoffed at us on the Today Show. When the movie... continued
Doorway to Other Worlds
January 18, 2014More than ever now, it's possible to enjoy an increase of being, and 2013 has been a year of profound discovery for me. In the scientific world, it brought four epochal discoveries, the combination of which are causing my mind... continued
A Joyous Romp of a Close Encounter
November 13, 2013Over the past twenty-four hours, something beautiful has happened to myself and my wife. It must have started sometime after nine last night. We first noticed it at close to one this morning. Anne had gone to bed around nine.... continued
Implanted Memories
August 18, 2013From a recent news story: "Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have successfully implanted a false memory into a mouse’s brain, a seemingly far-fetched idea reminiscent of a science-fiction film." If scientists can implant false memories in mice,... continued