Patiently Waiting

As regular readers of these pages know, the subject of controlled nuclear fusion runs parallel to all this discussion of “antigravity” and free-energy research and non-conventional physics.  In fact  the pursuit of fusion formed the unifying arc of the my first book, The Boy Who Invented Television And so it is with some sadness that

We note here the passing last week of Elma G. “Pem” Farnsworth, the widow of Philo T. Farnsworth, in Bountiful, UT.  Mrs. Farnsworth was 98 years old, and had been in declining health for some time.  She took her final breaths about  3:AM the morning of April 27, 2006. Anybody who has read any of

Today we note the weird and tragic tale of one Gary McKinnon, a British computer hacker now wanted for extradition to the U.S. for hacking into the Pentagon’s computer networks. According to this account, Mr. McKinnon justifies his actions on the grounds that “he is convinced that the United States government is withholding critical information

Is the Ionic Breeze really any good? The New York Times seems to wonder in this story from the Sunday Magazine on Jan 21, 2006: Link: Getting Through the Filter – New York Times. The Money Quote: Consumer Reports subscribers bought the Ionic Breeze despite the magazine’s tests calling the product ineffective. Asher chalks that

Here’s a good example of the sort of input that I have exposed myself to since embarking on this journey into the ‘Parallel Universe.’ I have a number of standing Google Alert searches, one of which delivers to my desktop every day anything that has been published to the web that includes the expression “anti-gravity”