Perspectives
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Optimism, pessimism, and realism…and generational attitudes
What do you think about our (that is, humanity’s) future on the Earth? Why? How about those around you? What...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Tornado outbreaks…and those national budget priorities
This past weekend, millions of Americans have been preoccupied with Monday’s deadline for filing their 2010 federal income taxes. But...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Andy and Randy break out the Nerd-be-Gone
Years ago, the cartoonist nonpareil Gary Larson showed a couple of guys out in the middle of the desert, totally...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
We’ve heard about global warming…but what about global trusting?
“In God we trust.” You’ve heard this before, right? It’s the motto of the United States. Coins have displayed this...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
America’s checkbook
In my circles, there’s an oft-heard idea that goes something like this: “If you want to know where someone’s heart...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
What would puzzle Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers today?
While I was a college physics major, I came across the book Cosmology, by H. Bondi (Cambridge monographs on physics,...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Robert Hooke (1918-2003)
Today my father, Robert Hooke, were he still alive, would have turned 93. He was a remarkable person. My mother,...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
The Wasp
In the late 1950’s, when I was a high school student in Pittsburgh, life was simpler. Take electronics. One day...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
“From the cockpit, this is your captain speaking…”
If you’ve read the April 5 and March 30 posts, you know that we’ve been working (maybe even overworking?) an...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Thinking outside the box…after centuries of boxing ourselves in.
One hoary chestnut? Bad enough. But two of ‘em, end-to-end? What’s up with that? Simply this: these two overworked clichés...
