Annals Of The Hive

Remember these guys?  They're the science ants who have been shooting particles down a tunnel that would be the envy of any hive in the ...

America is not America without a frontier. We're the kind of people who need to be constantly pushing the outside of the envelope, creat...

Forward Looking Infrared has been around a long time. I first saw it in use over 30 years ago, cruising along the Rio Grande in an INS hel...

Web 2.0 has witnessed the rise of citizen journalism and a brand of publishing that reminds me of the wild, wild West. Compared to the staid...

Both sides of the WikiLeaks debate seem determined to misrepresent the issues in the Assange drama by hotly arguing over whether Assange is ...

Forget about Komodo Dragons, The Flu Formerly Known As Swine, Bernie Madoff, Scammers and Spammers, ATT, Tagged.com, Stalling Polit...

We ate their eggs. We ate them. We little mammals ate them. And we inherited the earth.

The Archangel Michael has fallen from grace. Obsessed with the natural world, he has forgotten his appointed place. On Good Friday, he is en...

I've been re-reading Dee Brown's Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee this week. Brown's great achievement was to envision a history o...

Summer is over. My arugula and basil went to seed. My big sunflowers died, like friendships that didn't work out.