I created the “Connecting the Dots” blog site to investigate and interpret a global range of topics from an international, and personally quirky, perspective.
My topics in “Connecting the Dots” include politics, the environment, fun issues, social issues and anything else that catches my attention. I hope you enjoy them, and will join me through your comments.
I inaugurated the “GOLDEN FLEECE AWARD” some time ago, which rewards the most stupid, inept, criminal and just plain dumb activities of public officials and others, everywhere. I have now added another award, the “GOLDEN EAGLE AWARD”, which celebrates remarkably positive activities of public officials and others. I would appreciate your help in identifying great examples of both.
An article in The Economist caught my attention recently; it was entitled “How to raise world IQ”. The article was based on research in 72 …
Thomas Neff is a name few people have heard of, and yet his accomplishment over many years must rank among the most significant of the …
Holograms in vehicles sounds a little like science fiction, but a company in the U.K. is working on using holograms as an information source for …
In the 1800s, a trio of women, I have called them “Women of the Nile”, forever changed the study and understanding of ancient Egypt. So …
Last week I took a road trip from Colorado to Wisconsin and back to see the Oshkosh Air Show, which I have wanted to visit …
People awakening is a Heather Cox-Richardson article. I occasionally re-publish an article from Heather Cox-Richardson because her in-depth analysis from an historical context I find …
In 1905, the future Bloomsbury Group, a group of artists, writers and intellectuals, began to meet weekly at 46 Gordon Square in Bloomsbury, London. This …
The end of the Canadian Arctic summer marks the annual migration of polar bears heading inland to wait for the ice to form. Thousands of …
One of life’s mysteries is that it’s a struggle, sometimes, to find anything to eat in your “tidy fridge” – the clutter just gets in …
Researchers studying communication in sperm whales say they’ve uncovered sophisticated audio structures similar to those found in human language. It raises the tantalizing possibility that, …
