Archive (to 2009)

Imagine how much fun this guy will have when “Defying Gravity” arrives on bookshelves:

Oh yeah, “fact checking.”  What a concept:  A man whose memoir about his experience during the Holocaust was to have been published in February has admitted that his story was embellished, and on Saturday evening his publisher canceled the release of the book. And once again a New York publisher and Oprah Winfrey were among

 ..although that depends on which calendar you’re using: Some years ago, the evolutionist and atheist Richard Dawkins pointed out to me that Sir Isaac Newton, the founder of modern physics and mathematics, and arguably the greatest scientist of all time, was born on Christmas Day, and that therefore Newton’s Birthday could be an alternative, if

You probably don’t want to share a room in a motel with these guys, either: An infinite number of mathematicians walk into a bar. The first one orders a beer. The second orders half a beer. The third, a quarter of a beer. The fourth mathematician orders an eighth of a beer. And so on,

…if you had $200K to spend on a vacation? Richard Branson has partially moved on from inner space travel to the final frontier. The founder of Virgin Airlines and Galactic calls 2008 the “Year of the Spaceship.” His White Knight mothership and spacecrafts were unveiled in Mojave, Ca. The project took about 4 years to

I got a heads-up the other day from (Naudin’s) Yahoo Lifters Group about a new patent: Link: Personal flight vehicle and system – Patent 7182295. Various methods, apparatuses, and systems in which an electric-energy lifting panel levitates a user secured to the electric-energy lifting panel. The electric-energy lifting panel includes a first capacitive plate and