Category Archives: Science, Medicine & Technology

Rating 3.00 out of 5 [?]Original: April 1996 About 1964, I overhauled a 4-wheel drive 1948 Jeepster engine. This early edition of a Jeep sedan had a 4-cylinder, flat head motor that wasn’t very complicated. So, even as broke as we … Continue reading →

Rating 3.00 out of 5 [?]Original: January 2002 I just finished reading a book (my Christmas present from Suzanne) called GENOME (HarperCollins) by Matt Ridley. It was really a fascinating read about the human genome and it brought me back … Continue reading →

Rating 3.00 out of 5 [?] Original: January 2001 Before you start laughing let me tell you something. Two brilliant physicists, Steven Hawkings and Julian Barbour have proposed that TIME, as we know it, probably doesn’t exist in the scheme of … Continue reading →

Rating 3.00 out of 5 [?]Original May 2002 I just read a little article on NANOTUBES and it left me with a bundle of ‘what ifs’. Basically, these little doohickeys (molecules) are made out of carbon. They look a lot … Continue reading →

Rating 3.00 out of 5 [?]Original: October 2002 I’ve been watching NASA TV for a couple of days because the Shuttle (STS-109) is on orbit and attempting to rendezvous and service the Hubble Telescope. The mission might have to be … Continue reading →

Rating 3.00 out of 5 [?]Original: July 2001 The very first time I heard about a computer was around 1960 when I read about the monster machine the British built to help decipher German codes during World War II. It … Continue reading →

Rating 4.00 out of 5 [?]Original Concept 1964 I’ve had a theory since early in the 1960s that I believe might explain how the RAM processes of our living brain works – random access memory – and I am not … Continue reading →