Month: September 2011
-
The 2011 National Book Festival on the Washington DC Mall
Book Festival Poster “I cannot live without books.” ~ Thomas Jefferson I had the great joy of attending this year’s National Book Festival on the Washington DC Mall. With over 100 authors in attendance, CSPAN’s BookTv.org covering the event, PBS Kids, Scholastic, and the greatest library on Earth providing educational materials, this was a fun…
-
Science Fiction Versus Fantasy – Uncensored
This is the uncensored version of my Science Fiction VS Fantasy piece I wrote for the Science Creative Quarterly several years ago. I’ve also written much more extensively on this topic in the past. This is the abbreviated version with 10% more snark: I Fanboy: Hey gang! Did you read The Sword of Shanara? The…
-
Celebrating the UN’s “International Day of Peace” with Dr. Jane Goodall
Jane Goodall Vicky and I had the great honor of seeing Jane Goodall at American University in Washington DC this last weekend. The event was a sort of town hall meeting held outdoors in the cool fall air titled Conversation on Peace just a few days before the United Nations’ International Day of Peace. Dr.…
-
9/11 by the Numbers
[It is] easy for us to provoke and bait this administration. All that we have to do is to send two mujahidin to the furthest point east to raise a piece of cloth on which is written al-Qaeda, in order to make the generals race there and cause America to suffer human, economic, and political…
-
The Science of Social Welfare
Malnutrition Affects the Mind Credit: REL Waldman For thousands of years civilizations have extended social safety nets to its most disadvantaged members in order to ensure a minimal level of wellbeing. The Roman Empire, ancient Judaism, the Chinese Song Dynasty, the Catholic Church, Islam and many many other civilizations have a history of providing social…