ROME RECYCLING ITS COINAGE
A recent article about Rome recycling its coinage brought home to me the idea that modern Western society didn’t invent re-cycling, as many of us …
HOTSAT-1
HotSat-1 carries the highest resolution commercial thermal sensor in orbit, enabling it to trace hot and cold features as small as 3.5 meters across. It …
RUSSIAN SPIES
I have tended to think that worrying about Russian spies was a remnant of the old Cold War. It has certainly faded from the news …
HOLLOWAYS
In my mind, the name Holloway / Holloways had always meant the person who played Eliza Doolittle’s father in My Fair Lady, Stanley Holloway, or …
COALITION UK GOVERNMENT
A coalition United Kingdom government that re-enters Europe. How’s that for a radical approach to the future of U.K. politics? We, U.K. citizens, seem …
JERSEY
Jersey is the largest of the Channel Islands, an archipelago of six inhabited islands (and many more uninhabited ones) scattered over the English Channel, just …
ROMAN GRAFFITI
Roman graffiti is among the most interesting, lewd and graphic of any graffiti produced by any civilization. It makes the graffiti scratched on the walls …
BACKSTABBERS
Backstabbers, ancient and modern. I thought this short commentary on Putin, and his future, was fun, accurate, and applicable far beyond Russia’s current leader. …
SWEDEN GRAPHITE AND CHINA
Sweden graphite and China are an unlikely combination for the topic of a blog, but the story is an example of how the Chinese Communist …
WOOD CITY
Stockholm Wood City sounds a little weird, but a Swedish company is planning to build a complete city made out of cheap, green, fireproof timber. …