Film: 2012 and the End of the World As We Know It

Roland Emmerich’s apocalyptic Disney movie 2012 is filling movie theaters, while eliciting derisive hoots from sophisticated film critics, who deplore it’s simplistic, formulaic story of a decent family man heroically trying to cope with earth-shattering disaster. The film even induced the SF Chronicle to publish an article by a respected science journalist listing all the [...]

Gorbachev on the Collapse of the Soviet Union

In a recent interview In The Nation (Nov 16, 2009) Mikail Gorbachev makes some fascinating comments on the factors that led to the dissolution of the communist empire.

James Hansen talks sense on the Copenhagen conference

In an interview with the Guardian, James Hansen, the world’s pre-eminent climate scientist and who heads the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies said any agreement likely to emerge from the negotiations would be so deeply flawed that it would be better to start again from scratch. Hansen, in repeated appearances before Congress beginning in [...]

The Film “The Men Who Stare at Goats” and Remote Viewing

This film surprised me. I expected a superficial and condescending take-off on the US Army and CIA experiments in psychic espionage (known as  Remote Viewing or RV) and the decidedly creepy psycho-kinetic (PK) killing at a distance – for which the operators practiced by trying to get a goat’s heart to stop by staring at [...]

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