Virgin Galactic revealed WhiteKnight2 yesterday. I’m a big supporter of the idea of private space flight.
MOJAVE, California — After years of secretive construction, Scaled Composites and Virgin Galactic presented the first stage of their commercial launch platform, WhiteKnightTwo, today at the Mojave Air and Space Port.
Sir Richard Branson explains his motive for creating Virgin Galactic: [...]

My weekend was busier than my week.Saturday we went white water rafting on the Ocoee River. Everyone seemed to have a really great time, and I can highly recommend the company we used - Ocoee Rafting. Our trip lasted about four and a half hours, and our guide, Emily, was pretty competent. She ran our [...]

My parents just bought me The Last Lecture as a present for graduating from college (at 37 years old I’m no whiz kid).
Randy Pausch, a Carnegie Mellon University computer scientist whose “last lecture” about facing terminal cancer became an Internet sensation and a best-selling book, died Friday. He was 47.

Randy Pausch emphasized the joy [...]

I like freedom. I like liberty. I like choice. To have these things, a society must be willing to tolerate a variety of activity and behavior that might be described as odd, eccentric or weird. Unfortunately, most of the world does not have freedom, liberty or choice due to petty men in robes and their [...]

The signs and portents have been around for some time. If you use a cell phone you might want to pay attention. And who doesn’t use a cell phone these days. If you can talk, and you live in the United States, you probably have a cell phone. Guess what? You might also have cancer.
PITTSBURGH [...]