Monthly Archives: September 2007

Biological Basis For Creativity Linked To Mental Illness The study in the September issue of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology says the brains of creative people appear to be more open to incoming stimuli from the surrounding environment. … Continue reading →

Tim Rutten, writing in this morning’s Los Angeles Times, does a good job pointing out the problem with allowing the President of Iran to speak at Columbia: One of the world’s truly dangerous men, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, left New … Continue reading →

Every so often (well, okay, several times a day) I look to see what’s up with my book, The Bible’s Most Fascinating People. It is currently listed with all the online booksellers that I’m aware of: Amazon, Borders, Barnes and … Continue reading →

Almost disturbing, but a funny mashup of Star Trek: Send to Kindle

I stepped outside this morning, as I normally do, to get the newspaper. The time was about 6 AM. I looked up at the sky and saw a bright object, nearly as bright as Venus (which is currently up in … Continue reading →

The Dawn spacecraft is on its way to the asteroid belt. It took off this morning about 7:30 Eastern Time (4:30 Pacific). Meanwhile, MSNBC relates that astronomers have found something odd: A new and intense type of radio burst has … Continue reading →

If the weather cooperates and there are no technical glitches, the Dawn spacecraft will launch aboard a Delta II about 7:20 AM Eastern Time (4:20 Pacific Time) on Thursday for a long voyage to visit Vesta and Ceres, two asteroids … Continue reading →

September 26, 1983 could have been a very bad day, but thanks to a Soviet soldier who chose to do nothing, it wasn’t: 1983: A Soviet ballistics officer draws the right conclusion — that a satellite report indicating incoming U.S. … Continue reading →

Accordng to the British newspaper, the Telegraph, “Parallel universe proof boosts time travel hopes:” Parallel universes really do exist, according to a mathematical discovery by Oxford scientists that sweeps away one of the key objections to the mind boggling and … Continue reading →

According to the US Military: BAGHDAD (AFP) — Iran is smuggling advanced weapons, including surface-to-air missiles, into Iraq to be used by extremists against American troops, the US military charged on Sunday. US military spokesman Rear Admiral Mark Fox told … Continue reading →