Sympathy for the Devil

When C.D. Hylton High School’s marching band performs during Friday night’s football game, they will be playing a different tune.
This year, the marching band is performing a Georgia-themed halftime show, to celebrate their upcoming trip to perform at the Peach Bowl in Atlanta in December, band director Dennis Brown said. Until recently, the Charlie [...]

The Space Elevator

It seems not so long ago that a space elevator was pure science fiction. It will be built, because humanity needs it, and because it will create fabulous wealth. Enough to save the world. Here is an interview with one of the men who is trying to build the first space elevator.

The Silent Planet

A pocket-sized book published by CTS this week addresses Catholic attitudes to extra-terrestrial life.
With increasing numbers of people believing not only in the possibility of intelligent life on other planets, but even claiming encounters with aliens, it is not surprising that the Catholic Church is beginning to explore what effect the discovery of sentient ETs [...]

Richard Feynman and The Connection Machine

Richard Feynman and The Connection Machine
A charming essay by Daniel Hillis, concerning the great physicist’s work at Thinking Machines.

Honorless Killings

In the last few weeks, the Swedish society has been touched by the brutal and calculated murder of Fadima Sahindal; a young courageous woman who chose to live according to her will and paid the price by her life. In the last two months, two other young women in Denmark and Britain were killed by [...]

Overheard in passing

The western Left didn’t give a tinker’s damn for the fates of the Iranians, Lebonese, Nicaraguans, Vietnamese, Cambodians, Koreans, Cubans, Czechs, Hungarians, Poles, or even Russians, so long as the eeeevil American right-wingers were dealt a political defeat (and let’s not even start on Israelis).
Why should anybody be surprised thay they could now care [...]