The Diggers
In the twenty-first century, Cobalt (Co on the periodic table) has become a highly valued commodity; one of the few elements that make our rechargeable...
Elmore Leonard
I was chatting with my neighbor a while back and he mentioned Elmore Leonard. After a few minutes, it occurred to me that a guy...
Louis Le Prince
In 1888, French inventor Louis Le Prince used a device the world had never seen to capture the first known motion pictures: a two second...
The More Things Change…
After reading American Midnight: The Great War, A Violent Peace, and Democracy’s Forgotten Crisis (2022) by historian Adam Hochschild, it occurs to me that our...
For the Future
The climate on our planet is changing; and reversing the inevitable seems as if it will require a bit more cooperation than humanity has yet...
The Axe Handle
In 1974 I found myself traveling through Arkansas on my way to California. Since I wasn’t old enough to drive, I hitched a ride with...
The Morgan
Among his many endeavors, financier John Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) populated his private library in New York—now the Morgan Library and Museum —with some of the...
The Gift of Reading III
If there must be a theme for this collection of books, it can be said for certain that I loved and appreciated and now share...
A Podcast Primer
Liberal MSNBC commentator Rachel Maddow has stepped back from her long-running eponymous primetime show (TRMS), but just inked a $30 million per year contract with...
Bobby
There is a great deal of chatter out there about our divided dysfunctional political system which now includes a growing incidence of references to impending...
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