May 3, 2025
To Trees and Carbon, Yes
Rarely am I excited by losing trees. We took down both Chinese (Lifesaver shaped) peaches. They grew well, but produced lousy fruit that attracted green fruit beetles that ate the fruit, bored...
reality in perspective
April 30, 2025
Families of Four
The US Federal Govt spent over $20,000 for every person last year. We owe a total of $106,000 per individual in federal debt. The GDP last year was $86,000 per person, while...
April 12, 2025
Middling at Both Ends
This post is past due. My newest goal is to make everything “gentle and agreeable,” which is contrary to my nature. It also violates the current absolute division between I support Trump...
April 3, 2025
What Tariffs? No Tariffs Here.
Donald Trump imposed no tariffs. We have no tariffs, any more than the EU, China, Canada, Mexico, India, Australia, the Philippines or Vietnam have tariffs on us. Fair trade means no tariffs....
March 20, 2025
Dragonfly Physics
The limits of mechanical engineering, particularly aviation design and mechanics, have always been present in nature. The standards for mechanical engineering can be found in one magnificent animal. Of course, I’m talking...
March 20, 2025
Time, Light, Space
Among the venerable Legends and Myths of Science, the evolution of existence fascinates me the most. You will not hear this in almost any debate, but the fact is, all of the...
March 16, 2025
Actual Value of $$$
This article came from practical experience, finally understood. For philosophical and moral considerations, try back later. Without much need or want, and certainly too little money to bother with, I never had...
March 14, 2025
Intro to DNA
DNA’s superpower is producing fractal globules, or almost infinite repeating geometries between one dimension and all three, that never become knots. To understand, imagine DNA as a book, All About You! It...
March 10, 2025
Political Recovery
Everything defining United States politics has been infected with generations of corruption. Not that it was easy in the first place! According to Webster’s Dictionary, 1840, democracy means the people vote for...
March 6, 2025
Window on Ipsoscope
A favorite view of life etched itself into memory. I would look through a stained glass window in a third floor dormer of the great big house of my birth. I could...
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