Things that make you go hmm

Where is the Halloween etiquette these days? Am I just an old fogey? As my neighbor and I handed out candy — standing outside with big bowls and doling it out to whomever we encountered on the street regardless of  [more...]

This is such sad news; I can’t help but anthropomorphize these robots. NASA’s Opportunity rover has been crippled and blinded by problems with two of its most important instruments. The agency has suspended  [more...]

I was watching a show on History Channel about engineering disasters just now; I was shocked to see that one segment was of a disaster that I actually saw in person. It was the collapse of one of the Skyline Towers  [more...]