NASA’s John C. Stennis Space Center sprawls across the southern coastal Mississippi wetlands, built in the early 1960s to fulfill President John Kennedy’s space race dream to land the first man on the moon. Specifically, the ground-breaking (and sound-shattering) facility’s task was to flight-certify all first and second stages of the Saturn V rocket for […] Read more

My acupuncturist Dr. Jim is an amazing guy. Last week, he told me how he decided to shed 10 pounds of excess belly flab that had crept up. He figured that his back pain was caused by pressure from the front of his body. So he set fitness goals with rewards for successful completion. What […] Read more

I remember seeing the Tom Cruise film Minority Report in 2002 with flying cars and cereal boxes that came alive, and wondered how that could all happen. I still don’t quite get it, but I know it has something to do with computers, 1 trillion of them. The interconnectivity of society will be beyond a scale we […] Read more

Smart preppers plan ahead for worst-case scenarios before they happen. Many people coordinate bug-out plans with family members and friends, just in case the need arises to escape an emergency situation, be it natural (hurricane or electromagnetic solar flare) or not (armed conflict or disease). While we’re all waiting for the End of the World, […] Read more