Physicist Stephen Hawking, who has completed a documentary series called Stephen Hawking’s Universe that will be aired on the Discovery Channel beginning May 9, believes that there must be extraterrestrials out there somewhere considering the pure mathematic probabilities.
In keeping with our seasonal theme in this section of the site, we are going to pass along another menu suggestion that seems to walk hand-in-hand with the spring and summer months. The first time I ever had key lime pie it was, as you might expect, right after I moved to Florida some years ago. I worked in a restaurant on the beach, and their homemade key lime pie was spectacular, and I’m not the biggest fan of sweets in general.
There was a time when creating a web presence was something that was reserved for the technologically savvy among us (sometimes referred to as computer geeks), but those very geeks have actually made it simple for the rest of us to participate in the ongoing dialogue on the Internet. Anyone can create a blog these days using intuitive platforms like Blogger and Wordpress, and they serve a number of purposes.
Sports fans can sometimes take certain productive players for granted and moan about their failures rather than celebrating their successes, and the fans in Philadelphia may be the toughest anywhere in this regard.
There are a handful of artists that have appeal across a very wide demographic, and the great Carlos Santana is certainly one of them. Few musicians have the type of staying power that Santana has displayed over the years, and his Latin-infused brand of rock fusion sounds as fresh today as ever
The tragic explosion of the offshore oil rig that killed eleven workers off the coast of Louisiana underscores the reason why there have been limitations placed on offshore drilling for decades. Obama has recently lifted the ban, and the reality is that most Americans are in favor of the drilling, another example of the uninformed lobbying against their own interests.
The face of the real estate industry has changed radically since the subprime crisis, as it is called, and the result has enabled a major slide toward a very subtle form of socialism. Home ownership and gradual, sustained appreciation was once the foundation of the American Dream and the path to prosperity here in the United States, but those days are behind us. Some 25% of the homes “owned” in America are worth less than the amount of money that is owed on them.
Protests against the “new” Arizona law that allows law enforcement officers to try to enforce the “old” laws against illegal aliens invading our country seem surreal to me.
Facebook has indeed become huge, with over 400 million global users, and they are going to try to make search engines like Google obsolete with their new “Open Graph” platform. The intention is to allow Facebook members to engage a “like” icon while they are surfing the web, and without leaving the page, the article that they like will appear on their Facebook page
If you wanted to point out the single biggest problem with the way our country is run in Washington it is the revolving door between the private business sector and what is tritely referred to as “public service.” You see it when you recognize the fact that people like former Treasury secretaries Rubin and Paulson were both former CEOs of Goldman Sachs.
