The latest breakthrough in stem cell research turns skin cells into stem cells just as useful as embryonic stem cells, without the ethical issues. Adult stem cells and induced stem cells, while still able to become many other types of cells, still had some limitations. Researchers are saying, however, that stem cells using this new [...]

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The latest episode of the “Consider This!” podcast is out. Conservative commentary in 10 minutes or less. I got our first e-mail listener feedback from what I talked about last episode, regarding whether or not legalizing same-sex marriage necessarily leads to polygamy. I thought it had to, but one listener took on my challenge to come up [...]

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The latest episode of the “Consider This!” podcast is out. Conservative commentary in 10 minutes or less. The bombing of the Boston Marathon started a number of things; a terrorism investigation, increased security all over the country, and the media’s attempt to, again, blame the Right for domestic terrorism. Folks, please, let’s take care of the wounded and [...]

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Canadian Street Photographer Michael Ernest Sweet shares his thoughts about Twitter’s photography community and 10 Twitter accounts you might find interesting.

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What can we expect in the new soon-to-be-released Ricoh GR Digital camera? Canadian street photographer Michael Ernest Sweet, who uses Ricoh cameras exclusively, weighs in on what we might see and when.

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 This is a guest article by Frank. Google, possibly more than any other corporation, become seemingly aware of the fact that information is power. Using many different vectors, Google collects information about the Internet, about countless Internet trends, and information about YOU, its users. Just how much do the Google information-gathering channels capture about you [...]

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The tech press is alive with rumors that Microsoft have a major update to the train wreck named Windows 8. Windows 8 has not captured the imagination of the masses as was expected. I personally think it is clunky and ugly. Our friends at Microsoft have a long history of clunky and ugly. Win 98 [...]

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The BBC series Sherlock has hit the Philippines, and although I think the plots are stupid, the dialogue and characters are quirky enough to keep my interest. But as a doc, I got very annoyed with the Dr. Watson limp in story number one. Quick: What’s wrong with this picture? The answer is that he [...]

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My relatives in Philly are in the “anti bullying” mode after a local schoolboy died after beaten by thugs. My comment? Maybe if the locals had paid more attention to the terrible bullying incidents against Asians in the area a couple years ago, that the school would have implemented a strict “no violence” policy. Perhaps [...]

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Osteoporosis is a bad problem for older women. This is the thinning of the bones that one develops with aging, leading to broken arms and hips from minor falls. Originally, women were given female hormones to prevent this, until studies showed that this increased the rate of uterine cancer, and maybe either caused breast cancer [...]

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The Aliens are coming! The Aliens are coming! Or maybe not…. One of the amusement of studying ancient history is how all those sophisticated Yanks seem to think “primitive” people are stupid, so anything they don’t understand is attributed to “Aliens”. As Chesterton once quipped: Once people stop believing in religion, they start believing in [...]

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Welcome to the First Virtual Church of Our Lord and Savior, Steve Jobs. As you enter the sanctuary, please do not make eye contact with anyone. Keep your eyes focused on the screen of the mobile device of your choice. We are relevant and practice diversity here, which is easy since no one will even [...]

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In the book The Hobbit, Bilbo was given a short contract that included “funeral expenses” and a right to one fourteenth percentage of the treasure. Peter Jackson in his usual fashion did Tolkien one better, so Balin gives Bilbo a long intricate paper contract with a lot more details, written in a satire of legalese. [...]

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“You oughta get better locks around here if you don’t want people taking your private information, Mr. Squirl. It’s up to you to do something preventive….” “Mr. Mercer, I’m Jack Squirl, President of Data Miner Servicing, y’ know, ‘Servicing You With a Smile.’ Our security guard detained you one hour ago, and we are holding [...]

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It is the fearful, unthinking herd instinct and the forces that exploit it that are making us such a polarized nation. You don’t have to have a sick religion or be a right wing Republican to be delusional. Twitter is dripping with delusionalism in politics and atheism. And just try to convince me that Oswald [...]

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We read about one incident of a lunatic shooting people in a theater, a lunatic shooting people at a school, a lunatic crashing jetliners into skyscrapers. Then we conclude that all strangers are lunatics, too dangerous to connect with. So we stay alone, unconnected, and slowly we become a nation of benign lunatics.    I see [...]

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The fight between the NRA and the Obama administration is just political fog. The “excuse” is because of several high profile mass murders, yet the real problem is that the press publicizes and glorifies such murders, leading to “copy cat” crimes by the unstable. One has to wonder at dear old Joe Biden’s remark, justifying [...]

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What does the UK Guardian asking for us to reconsider the crime of pedophilia, and the Life of Pi have in common? Making up pretty lies to confuse the reality of the crime. The Guardian insists that the crime of having sex with children isn’t bad and such impulses should just be accepted as part [...]

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Living outside the USA, I wonder if I would recognize my birthland if I return someday. We now see the NYTimes proposing that “we” get rid of the US constitution, which is standing in the way of what “we” want to do. AS the nation teeters at the edge of fiscal chaos, observers are reaching [...]

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An Unconquerable Soul Speaks Out From the Depths of Despair Pain and suffering has been the subject of poetry since the beginning of mankind.  In particular, those unjustly imprisoned and subjected to inhumane treatment often turned to poetry to ease their mental anguish and refocus their thinking from despair to hope of survival.  The author [...]

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For decades Kodak was the world leader in both consumer and professional film. Basically anywhere a photographer could find themselves they could also find a fresh supply of Kodak 35mm film. That was one of the companies biggest claims to fame. It was also, due to a large brick and mortar network, part of their [...]

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Part one discussed the way the Philippines went along with American pressure to pass a US style family planning program whose aim (denied by the president) is to limit population control. Reality check: every “discussion” of the bill by the Manila elites includes lamentations about the high population growth, and even a few politicians have [...]

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Neocolonialism anyone? The Philippines passed an RH bill, a “Reproductive Health Bill” that requires medical personnel to push birth control on their patients, and all the US newspapers are rejoicing. The bill had the opposition of the powerful Catholic church, but in a country where the average number of kids per woman has fell from [...]

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Ah yes. It’s time for the yearly “War on Christmas”. Right wing rhetoric? Well, it’s a way to sell newspapers…. What has changed in the last ten years is that it is now politically correct to ridicule Christian belief. Yet the latest report is over the top: One NBC Medical Expert named Dr. Snyderman has [...]

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A few days ago I wrote a rather cynical op-ed piece about my personal experience with the company, you can find it here. I had said my piece, and moved on other projects. DirecTV is a large organization, as of 2010 it had over 19 million subscribers. This makes them a very serious player in [...]

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Published by Home Care Assistance, Inc., From Hospital to Home Care: A Step by Step Guide to Providing Care to Patients Post Hospitalization is designed to provide readers the information they need for a variety of situations when a loved one needs help to stay in his or her home. This book is designed for [...]

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Pretty much when I have had enough of the day, I tell my wife that I am going to go watch bombs! That signals that I can’t stomach another rerun of The Golden Girls, or Married With Children. I will go watch whatever is on the History Channel or Discovery. Unfortunately both channels have run [...]

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From the Daily Mail in London: Sick children are being discharged from NHS hospitals to die at home or in hospices on controversial ‘death pathways’. Until now, end of life regime the Liverpool Care Pathway was thought to have involved only elderly and terminally-ill adults. But the Mail can reveal the practice of withdrawing food [...]

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Of course that is easier said than done, there was only one WITCH ever built. It was 61 years ago that the Wolverhampton Instrument for Teaching Computation from Harwell saw its debut. While today the manufactures aim for compactness, speed, and agility, the WITCH boasted none of the above! It was instead a 2 ½ [...]

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If you ever saw the movie “LaStrada”, there is a quick glimpse of a retarded child with a huge head. I can’t remember why it is in the film, which is sad enough without it:: probably for shock value.But when I worked at a retarded institution, we had one such child, actually a man: Tommy. [...]

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