How to Design a Lunar Base Station; Practice Online

To promote space exploration with the next generation NASA is indeed stepping up its efforts to get kids interested in math and science and this is a positive step as our next generation will take us to new worlds for sure. NASA announced its new Program

Gulf of Mexico Earthquake Rocks; Wonder Why?

Fortunately the Gulf of Mexico has seen no major Hurricane this year in the 2006 Atlantic Tropical Hurricane Season, which is a good thing because those ocean surface temperatures are indeed pretty hot. But now instead of large Hurricanes we have a large Earthquake right off the coast of Tampa Bay, Florida.

Five Years On From Ground Zero

Former Al Jazeera journalist, Afshin Rattansi, is interviewed about progress on the war on terror

The Aesthetics of Atrocity: Remembering 9/11

Getting the aesthetics of atrocity right by committee has taken five years with nothing to show for it. Estimated costs of completing the 9/11 memorial at Ground Zero is closing in on a billion dollars. It has been our contention from the beginning that the inspiration was always there right in the committee's collective faces, staring back in stark, abject horror at them and anyone who looks back at it: the still standing remnant of shattered dreams and lives in a building once known as the World Trade Center.

Code Industry Needs a More Proactive, Positive Approach

An informed community will make the correct choices when given the opportunity.

Since September 11, America Has Caught a Break

The five year anniversary of September 11 is nearly upon us. The media will ask lots of questions. Are we safer that we were before? Are we closer to smashing our terrorist foes, or have they multiplied so much that they pose a disproportionately larger threat than ever before? In one way, I believe America caught a break, according to Dr. Gary S. Goodman, top speaker, best-selling author, and Fortune 1000 consultant.

Cuba

Cuba. This island is known everywhere in the world. Everybody knows such names as Fidel Castro and Che Guevara. Also Cuba is associated with Caribbean crisis, which had frightened both the U.S.A. and USSR. That's all that common person knows about this land and nation famous for specific culture and interesting history (especially of the 20th century). Cuba has always been a region of American interests in the Caribbean Sea and its 45-year resistance against capitalism (in fact – American politics) impresses everyone, even person hostile to Cuban regime.

The Red Ribbon Story

On February 7, 1985 at 2:00 p.m. the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agent Enrique (Kiki) Camarena was attacked by five men while opening his truck doors intending to drive and meet his wife for lunch.

Keywords – The Truest State of the Union Address

No poll in the entire world has ever been taken that can provide more demographics and information about Americans than their own collection of most often used keywords. What are those keywords?

Explosion of Light

Too much of a good thing can be bad. In the case of outdoor lighting, it turns out that it's a really bad thing.

Katrina: The Big One

Storm refugees, nearly all of them black, are on the move throughout the city. And they are refugees, as in, people fleeing misfortune and seeking refuge.

To Detox or He-tox -- Turkish Super-model Deniz Akkaya Needs to Know

After an intense search, Turkish paparazzi found super-model Deniz Akkaya at the exclusive Richmond Nua Spa Detox and Yoga Camp in Sapanca near Istanbul -- undergoing detox and yoga treatment to relieve stress. But was Deniz really Detox-ing, or was she He-toxing...

Reading The Signs of The Times

Several decades ago, Mohandas K. Gandhi warned against what he called the seven social sins: politics without principle, wealth without work, commerce without morality, pleasure without conscience, education without character, science without humanity, and worship without sacrifice.

Annan the UN's Big Fat Frog: Not One American Dime for Lebanon

Here we go agian, Annan is in the News, he gets my goat. Dennis

Waste Recycling Needs our Support

It is important to try, as individuals and organizations, to support recycling of waste in any way that we can. A safe and healthy environment is the responsibility of us all.