My father died when I was six. He had pancreatic cancer. In 1982, his form of cancer was nearly untreatable. His early death was almost... »
Science
What Happened Yesterday? Did The Eclipse Mess You Up Too?
It seemed like a lot of people had momentary insanity yesterday. I’m going to go out on a metaphysical limb and blame the penumbral lunar eclipse. Rare astrological events, although they offend many of the skeptics more than most observable events, seem to cause dramatic changes in many people’s personalities. Did... »
We’re All Time-Traveling Psychics – Quantum Physics Shows Why
I’m going to try to keep this simple and understandable. Skepticism is welcome. But I feel strongly that modern scientific studies will come to the same conclusion that myself and many respectable thinkers of our day have already found. Some of the great mysteries of psychic phenomena can easily be explained... »
The Unstoppable Force or The Immovable Object?
I obsess about massive ideas that attempt to define the universe. Strings? Spinning orbs of light? The God Particle? What are we really made of? Let me offer a theory – we are made up of ideas. Ideas so deeply embedded in our DNA that we don’t call them ideas anymore in... »
Your Brain Sucks and This Man Knew Why
Robert Anton Wilson is my favorite author. He was one of those people who was blessed with perspective. To sum him up in one post would be unfair. So consider this an introduction. I plan on touching on some of his transformational thought-gems from time to time. RAW is probably most... »
Crop Circles – Cool Man-made Designs or Alien Contact
I just love crop circles. I will agree that 90% of them seem hoaxy. But come on, you have to admit some of these designs are way too precise and delicately-detailed to be done by a couple drunk guys from a pub who wanted to play a joke on a farmer with... »
Nanobots Will Rule the World – Hopefully.
I’ve been driving people crazy with this subject for a while. I read Ray Kurzweil’s “The Singularity is Near” on my honeymoon. (Leave it to me, I like the brainy stuff when I’m relaxing.) He makes some very convincing arguments about why, not only is technological progress moving at an exponential rate,... »
Scientists Are So Dogmatic
I love Fringe. Mostly because of all the pseudoscience in it. It get’s me thinking – what was magic 100 years ago is a Large Hadron Collider now. I have nothing against skepticism, but why is fringe science so ridiculed in the scientific community? No one has been more alienated (no pun intended)... »