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.
Tucked inside a federal government building in the American Rockies is the world’s best collection of seafloor maps. Occasionally a hard drive arrives in the …
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 …
Anonymity can be a powerful tool, as well as a description of non-existence. “How effective would anonymity be as a punishment, compared with regular judicial …
I reported a while ago on the development of a vaccine against malaria, and the fact that the search for such a life-saving solution to …
Redonda is a tiny lump of rock in the Caribbean, located almost equidistant from Antigua, St. Kitts and Monserrat. I have flown over that area …
The history of my interest in bears was, until recently, confined to “Rupert Bear” when I was child (a stuffed animal), and various National Geographic …
In February 2021, I wrote a blog about the “discovery” of Zealandia, the eighth continent that many had predicted to exist, but nobody had found. …
How is the world doing on gender equality? According to the World Economic Forum (WEF), the picture is mixed. The needle is moving in the …
“Writer of common sense into computers” was the header of an obituary I read in The Economist this week for Douglas Lenat. I don’t generally …
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 …
