By Jeffrey the Barak. Let’s say you are hanging out near Hilo on the big island of Hawai’i and wondering what was going on in the neighborhood, oh let’s say, 82 million years ago. Well if you had a time machine and went back 82 ... Read More
By Jeffrey the Barak. Let’s say you are hanging out near Hilo on the big island of Hawai’i and wondering what was going on in the neighborhood, oh let’s say, 82 million years ago. Well if you had a time machine and went back 82 ... Read More
By Jeffrey the Barak. Time is a cruel bedfellow. It never goes backwards and we can only lose it. As it goes on, we get older and older, and eventually die. And yet how we love it so. We have defined it, reinvented it, measured ... Read More
By Jeffrey the Barak. Anti-Theists don’t just look away from religion and beliefs, they stand up and speak out about how such beliefs are false and wrong. They feel strongly enough about it to be impolite or confrontational, not out of hatred or intolerance, but ... Read More
The 1st Sam on his balloon ride above Earth. By Jeffrey the Barak In 2016, Sam the Space Dog, a lovable little stuffed animal, rode a balloon into space, reaching an altitude of 25 kilometers. He was the hero of a lot of British schoolchildren ... Read More
By Sigmund Shonholtz. GENES, GENDER, GENERATION, AND GEOGRAPHY… A coincidentalist’s perspective on Earthlinging. Every now and again, I have a conversation with someone that catches my attention and gets me wondering. As I see it, if a conversation is worth starting, it is worth investing in, ... Read More
By Jeffrey the Barak Deodorant of Death? A couple of decades ago, my nephew’s wife mentioned that she was looking for deodorant that did not contain aluminum, because her late mother had died of cancer and she thought that aluminum in deodorant was at least ... Read More
By Jeffrey the Barak. Most Westerners live in one of two types of house. Either it is masonry, solid, strong, but not much good in an earthquake, or they are in a wood-frame cage with the gaps filled in with drywall and stucco. High rise ... Read More
Recently the-vu received a message from Emily Stewart of OnlineMBA. Emily had noticed the short commentary on the disputed islands off the coast of Taiwan that is on the-vu.com (at this link) and she introduced us to a short five-and-a-half minute film about how possible ... Read More
By Jeffrey the Barak. (c) Google Earth, our route Part one took us from Torrance to Manhattan Beach on the L.A. Beach Bike Path, and part two began in Manhattan Beach and ended as we arrived at Venice Beach. This article is part three so ... Read More
