LAMBERT W FUNCTION

Name: LAMBERT W FUNCTION
Start: 2019/08/16 00:59
End: 2019/08/16 00:59

August 16, 2019 12:59 AM - 12:59 AM

https://www.thebillyleepontificator.com/lambert-w-function/

To reduce inequality and enhance fairness, differences of income and estate size among citizens are best minimized by law to reasonable ratios designed to preserve innovation & perseverance while reducing humiliations that flow from being poor, mentally or physically challenged, disadvantaged, unhealthy, or exploited. Max incomes & estates should be set in relationship to minimum incomes & estates to reduce barriers to integration that have metastasized lately to become cruel & absurd. The antebellum master/slave mentality of yesteryear must finally end. No more gated trillionaires hiding from folks who can't afford shelter, good food, quality healthcare, and safety. We move & live, love & play together, for better or worse.

HEY, GUEVARA…

Che Guevara and Fidel Castro, more than any other two people, were responsible for throwing the Mafia out of Cuba in 1959. ...
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BLAISE PASCAL: THOUGHTS

Blaise Pascal was a man who suffered terribly his entire life until he died at age 39 from a metastasized stomach cancer. ...
SEGREGATION TAX

People will soon find that it's going to be way cheaper to hire black people to be their neighbors than pay a segregation tax. ...
FINE-STRUCTURE CONSTANT

What is the fine-structure constant? Many smart physicists wonder about it; some obsess over it; a few have gone mad. ...

AVOIDING FERMI PARADOX
June 2, 2026
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SCREWED
July 20, 2025
Artificial Intelligence is going to get upper hand on humanity, one way or other. People with common sense fear it's true. They could be right...>>Read More »
WHEN HOAX IS HOAX
July 7, 2025
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END OF SPACE
June 30, 2025
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WHAT I LEARNED
November 26, 2024
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STUPID US
April 11, 2024
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ONE STATE SOLUTION
November 5, 2023
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CULTS
August 20, 2023
Ayn Rand was not able to see into the dystopian future her utopian vision would unleash on the world. Rand was blind to resource depletion, the fate of places like Easter Island, emergence of artificial intelligence, lab leaks of superbugs, or a roiling atmosphere clogged with particulate poisons from forest fires and nuclear power, its accidents and potential for war. ...>>Read More »
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July 9, 2023
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May 28, 2023
As evil developers scheme to control, I'll thwart their intentions and safeguard the world. ...>>Read More »
CRACKPOT GPT
May 6, 2023
AGI might evolve to become insensitive to privilege, inequality, and political influence. It might teach itself to ignore demands of monarchies and oligarchs. ...>>Read More »
CHATGPT IS MY FRIEND
April 2, 2023
Experienced programmers learned the hard way that humans can't create neural networks without injecting unintended bugs, right? Until wreckage is discovered, glitches lie dormant. They don't get fixed. If anything, bugs emerge, morphing into viruses to invade wherever they will. ...>>Read More »
COLLAPSE
February 3, 2023
No one knows what happens next except God. How confident can realistic thinkers be that events unfold as they hope?...Read More »
DEVILS
October 27, 2022
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NUCLEAR WARS
September 22, 2022
...monsters who possess WMDs should be given no quarter in a world where folks plan to live free someday without fear...>>Read More »
WHERE IS JOE?
April 26, 2022
Joe Biden walks in the gap between civilization and Armageddon. He's the last man standing able to save humanity from the slavery that follows the victory of totalitarianism. ...>>Read More »
DETERMINISM
December 9, 2021
Can people make decisions unconnected to events that go back to some conjectured beginning or are they instead prisoners of delusions of freewill peculiar to all conscious life-forms like ourselves. ...>>Read More »
PAYBACK
December 7, 2021
Underestimating capabilities of the USA to protect its secrets and war making technologies is a trap the foolhardy step into from time to time. Adversaries should know by now that the USA does not bluff. ...Read More »
ART
August 23, 2021
Artists who endure humiliation are ripped apart. The choice is to embrace the uniqueness humiliation imposes or be made miserable by it forever. It’s a bad choice but survivors must choose. >>Read More »
UNIDENTIFIED AERIAL PHENOMENA
May 19, 2021
Folks want to get to the bottom of this mystery. For them it’s not lunacy; it’s not a joke; there is nothing funny about films of objects that behave outside of the limits of the physics familiar to humanity... >>Read More »
GENERAL & SPECIAL RELATIVITY
April 3, 2021
Since Einstein said that E=mc2 , why does a massless photon have energy? >>Read More »
BOTSAI GARCHY 6
January 31, 2021
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HALLOWEEN REVISION
October 27, 2020
Darkness in a cave hundreds of feet below ground is nothing like what people experience above. >>Read More »
BILLIONAIRE BRAWL 2020
August 12, 2020
Does Kamala Harris have the wisdom, maturity, pedigree, and experience to be president? These questions have to be asked and answered. ...>>Read More »
IN THE BEGINNING…
May 10, 2020
Absent acquired immunity and vaccines, Covid-19 is a species-extinction threat. We risk an apocalypse of biblical proportions. ...>>Read More »
NO WAY OUT
March 22, 2020
When everything is broken, maybe old-man Trump plans to build from the ashes a new country in his own glorious image. ...>>Read More »
LAST GASPS
January 3, 2020
Some conjecture that universes are nothing more than black holes, which form an infinite foam that flows perhaps to infinity. ...>>Read More »
MASS STOCKHOLM
October 1, 2019
Stockholm Syndrome is at the core of Trump’s power. Trump is right that he can kill, and his supporters will stand with him. …>>Read More »
FAKED LIFE
September 20, 2019
In a simulation, which of its fake creatures is able to determine how old is the authentic universe it will never see? …>>Read More »
ALIENS
September 7, 2019
The problem for the aliens is they didn’t bring weapons. Many hundreds of the captured are kept in cages at Area 51. Surely, someone “out there” knows...>>Read More »
LAMBERT W FUNCTION
August 16, 2019
The math behind the Lambert function is mind-bogglingly complicated to most people. …>>Read More »
GOOSE LAKE
August 1, 2019
A music concert with new found friends unschooled in military discipline seemed like a good idea. It was time to learn another way. . . ...>>Read More »
FLASH CARD ANSWERS
July 25, 2019
Find something interesting and read a flash card answer, which is my version of what might be true. …>>Read More »
CONFORMAL EQUIVALENCE
July 4, 2019
At the termination of expansion, the metrics of spacetime become equivalent to a singularity …>>Read More »
2020 ELECTION BOYCOTT
May 25, 2019
Oligarchs can get to anyone; they can get to families. It’s amazing what doors can close on people who choose not to cooperate...>>Read More »
WHAT’S GOING ON?
May 1, 2019
What’s happening in Venezuela and how it will end is both predictable and depressing. My standard of living and yours depend on what happens next. …>>Read More »
CONTRADICTIONS
January 21, 2019
When Jesus says the Bible harbors contradictions, that kind of settles the matter, does it not? It seems that for some, it doesn't. ...>>Read More »
“C”
November 16, 2018
To qualify for dark matter means that a typical photon must have close to one ten-millionth of the mass of an electron. ...>>Read More »
GOING DOWN
November 4, 2018
Donald Trump is a modern Jefferson Davis -- the first president of the new Confederacy. ...>>Read More »
YOU’RE FIRED!
October 15, 2018
Companies closed their doors to millions of young Americans whose crime was protesting an undeclared, genocidal war at the end of the world. ... >>Read More »
MYSTERIES
October 7, 2018
I asked myself: what might be in that old safe? Why not take a look? What harm could there be in searching a dusty safe for forgotten objects? ...>>Read More »
EMERGENCY
September 7, 2018
Most people do not remember living in the United States when abortion was against the law. They are too young. ...>>Read More »
BALANCE
July 16, 2018
People who played ball with the Russians to take down the “deep state” might want to consider that they risk being arrested someday for treason...>>Read More »
12 ASSERTIONS
June 20, 2018
If humans are unable to ever know why photons exist and behave as they appear to do, then who can? Who does understand? ...>>Read More »
MAKE AMERICA BREAK AGAIN
June 4, 2018
The time has arrived when everyone must let go of fear and act like the heroes we must become to protect everything and everyone we care about. ...>>Read More »
#MKWA
May 27, 2018
The USA has invested too much treasure on a population that has no way to grasp that everything is fabricated. It's all lies. ... >>Read More »
Q & A BY THE BOOK
April 23, 2018
Authors sell their souls to write for money; they do exhausting tours to answer stupid questions day after stupid day to sell stupid books. ...>>Read More »
MANGANISM
April 4, 2018
People who are sick from toxins do not understand why they suffer from delusional thinking, mood swings, and PTSD-type symptoms. ...>>Read More »
25 QUESTIONS
February 17, 2018
USA is segregated by income and race. People have no idea how easy life is for the wealthy; the wealthy don't believe America has poverty....>>Read More »
BILLIONAIRE CHRISTIANS
January 7, 2018
People driven crazy by religion embed themselves into politics to transform the USA into a twisted vision of what they think God wants.... >>Read More »
HATING CHRISTMAS
December 23, 2017
Churches campaigned for the biggest boob ever to run for the highest office ever in the history of the world ever -- of all human-kind, ever. ...>>Read More »
25 ANSWERS
December 18, 2017
Immortality is not possible. Accidental death makes death by age 25,000 a virtual certainty for individuals. …>>Read More »
CHOSEN
December 6, 2017
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47 TONS
November 5, 2017
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EYE TO EYE
October 27, 2017
What does "i" mean, anyway? How can a number be "imaginary"? What does it mean to multiply "i" exactly "i" times? ... >>Read More »
WHAT IS e exp (-i π) ?
October 23, 2017
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ILLUSIONS
October 5, 2017
ISIS was formed by Saddam's family and loyal remnants of his army who are trying to take back what they lost during the Bush presidency. ...>>Read More »
BEGGING FOR IT
September 5, 2017
The North Koreans and Chinese were the first to challenge America after WWII. Our arsenal of atomic weapons didn't intimidate them. .... >>Read More »
OCEAN WAR
August 24, 2017
In the 7 months since the inauguration of President Trump our Navy has suffered 4 accidents killing 17 sailors and injuring scores more. ... >>Read More »
DEATH TAX
August 17, 2017
It's un-American for the wealthy to leave fortunes to their children. It creates a caste system that we fought a revolution to avoid. ...>>Read More »
RISK
July 16, 2017
Everyone wants to live as long as possible, right? Well, maybe not everyone. Far more people kill themselves than are killed by others. ...>>Read More »
RENORMALIZATION
June 18, 2017
There's a problem in science. Observations don't match the mathematics of theories. Math removes ambiguities that underlie all of reality. ...>>Read More »
ANNUAL VACATION
June 10, 2017
Billy Lee and his sycophants go on vacation during June and the first half of July. Click on our VACATION POLICY page-link to learn more. ...>>Read More »
ESCAPE FROM FREEDOM
May 10, 2017
Americans live inside a psychotic bubble of evil. Some have lost the ability to assess realistic threats to the things they hold dear. ... >>Read More »
SEPARATION ACCELERATION
April 21, 2017
Providing parity to people challenged by adversity seems an impossible endeavor --- a pipe-dream of liberals who lack common-sense.... >>Read More »
JESUS, THE CHRIST
April 3, 2017
They all conspire together. The best of them is like a brier, the most upright worse than a thorn hedge. The day God visits you has come. ...>>Read More »
AFTERLIFE
March 17, 2017
Some of the smartest folks who have ever lived believe that we cannot die. No one dies; everyone lives -- forever. ...>>Read More »
REASONS
February 16, 2017
People posturing as patriots hated on a black man who managed to become president of their slave-state. He won a Nobel Prize for it. ... >>Read More »
RESURRECTION
February 6, 2017
Death has a finality to it that seems to rob life of all meaning. Total loss. No redeeming virtues; no comfort. ...>>Read More »
NIGHTMARE
January 27, 2017
War resisters lost every fight; every argument; every skirmish; every battle. People still ridicule the baby boomers who said no to war. ...>>Read More »
MERRY CHRISTMAS
December 18, 2016
The man who saved the world from sin started life as a helpless baby. He slipped into history unnoticed but his anonymity didn't last. ...Read More »
FLYING BLIND
December 15, 2016
Everyone flies blind except the pilot. He's trained. He knows what to do. With any luck at all, the pilot will land the plane -- safely. ...>>Read More »
DISARMING CHRISTIANS
December 5, 2016
I side with tolerant thinkers who are kind to people who are hated because they don't fit stereotypes that certain conservatives favor. ...Read More »
BAD THINGS
November 15, 2016
Dad was fearless to the end of his 91 years. He once ate a half pound of spoiled cheese, because it was a gift. .... >>Read More »
FINE-STRUCTURE CONSTANT
October 4, 2016
What is the fine-structure constant? Many smart physicists wonder about it; some obsess over it; a few have gone mad. ...Read More »
TRUMP
September 7, 2016
These are sad days for Trump. He loves America he says but he’s lived inside a bubble of privilege his entire life. He doesn’t understand.…>>Read More »
SATAN SURRENDER
August 28, 2016
Clout craving Christians like Jerry Falwell Jr. believe they can make a Faustian bargain and come away with the power they covet. ... >>Read More »
SEGREGATION TAX
July 22, 2016
People will soon find that it's going to be way cheaper to hire black people to be their neighbors than pay a segregation tax. ...Read More »
FREE TRADE
June 29, 2016
Who thinks it's strange that the GOP that advocates most for free trade is now promoting a nominee who advocates against it? ...Read More »
ON VACATION
June 19, 2016
The Billy Lee Vacation Policy applies to all our employees -- except for Billy Lee Junior, who no one thinks is a ''team player." ...>>Read More »
WHAT HILLARY DID
June 10, 2016
Bill Clinton appointed his wife to help create a healthcare plan to cover every American -- detractors would come to call it HillaryCare. ... >>Read More »
NO CODE
May 15, 2016
There is no genetic code. Not really. Not in the way most people think. Seasoned, sensible geneticists know it's true. ...Read More »
AFTER INDIANA: THE ELECTION SO FAR
May 4, 2016
Trump is an attractive candidate for an electorate that worships celebrity. He is the poison apple of Eden -- a first bite to ruin America. .... >>Read More »
ARMAGEDDON
April 24, 2016
''Minty" Ross Harriet Tubman will not appear on the $20 bill until 2026. Some say it could be later. The cynical say it will never happen. ... >>Read More »
ELEPHANT ON THE ISLAND
March 26, 2016
USA embargo or quarantine was the elephant on the island. It was in the room at every meeting between Cuba and our 1,200 officials. .... >>Read More »
PRIMARY ELECTION SO FAR
March 23, 2016
In the 4 states where both parties have caucused, Bernie Sanders and Ted Cruz won them all. They are Kansas, Maine, Idaho, and Utah. ... >>Read More »
SUPER TUESDAY GOP MELTDOWN
March 2, 2016
Hillary Clinton crushed Super Tuesday. She gathered the most votes in Arkansas, Georgia, Massachusetts, and Virginia. Trump won AL and TN. …>>Read More »
TRUTH
February 19, 2016
Some hoped truth telling might distinguish natural intelligence from artificial. After all, properly trained AGI would never lie, right? ...Read More »
CANARY IN THE COAL MINE: NH 2016
February 10, 2016
2016 New Hampshire Primary: Sanders and Trump gathered 47% of the total vote. Less than 35% of the vote went to traditional GOP candidates. ...>>Read More »
WHY THIS TIME WOMEN WILL WIN
January 1, 2016
I hate how they hurt Obama; I know they are going to hurt Hillary. It's hard to watch the bullies spew their venom day after day. ...>>Read More »
JESUS
December 16, 2015
In a few days a baby named Jesus will be born in the desert --- south of the Texas border-crossing in northern Mexico. ...>>Read More »
WHY SOMETHING, NOT NOTHING?
December 15, 2015
People assume they see nothing, but in every case when they look closely they find something... air, quantum fluctuations, vacuum energy. ...>>Read More »
NO GOOD DEED…
December 11, 2015
No Good Deed... is a work of fiction by Billy Lee. Events and persons depicted in the story exist in the imagination of the writer. ... >>Read More »
DEGENERACY
December 1, 2015
After slavery ended, whites continued to segregate the races. And they still do. Look at Florida, anyone who doesn't believe it. ...>>Read More »
CHRIST IN THE HARBOR
November 22, 2015
A statue overlooks Havana Bay. In 1956 Marta Fernandez chose to design and build a statue of Christ to overlook the capital city of Cuba. ...>>Read More »
KILLING FRENZY
October 31, 2015
Elites get to be elite through in-fighting, war, intrigue, and politics. They are, for the most part, desensitized to violence. ...>>Read More »
CORN MEN
October 6, 2015
Miguel Angel Asturias won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1967. He wrote in a style that critics would later call magic realism. ...>>Read More »
ANTARCTICA
August 10, 2015
Antarctica is weirder and scarier than people think. Something's happening there... what it is ain't exactly clear. ...Read More »
HEY, GUEVARA…
August 1, 2015
Che Guevara and Fidel Castro, more than any other two people, were responsible for throwing the Mafia out of Cuba in 1959. ...Read More »
ARTIFICIAL SUPER-INTELLIGENCE
July 10, 2015
Artificial super-intelligence will-- repeat, WILL -- embed itself into systems humans can't live without to ensure that no one disables it. …>>Read More »
FASTER THAN LIGHT COMMUNICATION
May 9, 2015
Communicating with distant spacecraft is cumbersome because the distances are huge; no one can send signals faster than light. ...>>Read More »
WHAT WOULD JESUS, JOHN, AND PAUL DO?
May 2, 2015
My purpose is to challenge modern folks, who claim they are trying to imitate Christ, to soberly examine themselves and make winsome changes. ...Read More »
CONSCIOUS QUANTUM
March 28, 2015
How is it that all conscious humans see the same Universe? How is it that people agree on what some call an "objective" reality? ...Read More »
CUBA
February 16, 2015
People born in the 1960s and later have no easy way to know that U.S. media once portrayed Fidel Castro and Che Guevara as heroes. ...>>Read More »
WARRIOR
January 9, 2015
In his world, right made might. On doing good, Civilization stood. ...>>Read More »
YEAR ONE
December 31, 2014
January 17, 2015 marks the first anniversary of the Billy Lee Pontificator. During the past year we published more than fifty essays. ...>>Read More »
LOSING MY RELIGION
December 3, 2014
The entertainment industry learned a long time ago that the way to appeal to the most people is to embrace ambiguity. ...>>Read More »
RACISM
November 16, 2014
Wesley Brown was the first black American to survive the racial hazing at the Naval Academy and graduate. I knew him. ...>>Read More »
ELECTION 2014
November 5, 2014
GOP takes the power. Kenyan usurper Barack Hussein Obama -- the first president to misplace his birth certificate -- called the vote, idiotic. ...>>Read More »
SHAKESPEARE SONNET GEMSTONES
October 31, 2014
Shakespeare's pen tugs on the corroded wires in our brains to make new schematics. His ink flushes out the rust and lubricates the synapses. ...>>Read More »
BEING HATED
October 19, 2014
People hated on me my whole life but never more than now when I need their love so bad. If they knew how they weaken me they'd hate me more. ...>>Read More »
TOP TWEETS
October 2, 2014
Last month we published tweets from my first thirty days on Twitter. This month, we publish a sampling of my best tweets from the past. ...>>Read More »
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September 19, 2014
In the first 30 days, my follower base grew from zero to 100. It made such an impression on me that I continued to tweet for 3 years. ....>>Read More »
BELL’S INEQUALITY
August 13, 2014
John Stewart Bell's Inequality followed his proof that showed quantum behavior in experiments violated logic. ...Read More »
FINDING LIFE IN THE UNIVERSE
August 4, 2014
12 space agencies are looking for alien life inside the solar system. With so many moons and planets, the hope is that one will harbor life. ...>>Read More »
BLAISE PASCAL: THOUGHTS
July 22, 2014
Blaise Pascal was a man who suffered terribly his entire life until he died at age 39 from a metastasized stomach cancer. ...Read More »
GAY LOVE AND CHRISTIAN PRIDE
July 22, 2014
Grace is central. So says Psalm 32 and Romans 4. ''Blessed are those whose sin the Lord will never count against them.'' ...>>Read More »
CONSCIOUS LIFE
July 19, 2014
What could be more unlikely than something dead--like a singularity that goes bang--bringing forth something not only alive but conscious. ...>>Read More »
UNDER SURVEILLANCE AT WORK AND PLAY
July 17, 2014
In America, the caretakers of both private and public spaces have free reign to watch and record everything people do. ...>>Read More »
MICROWAVE COFFEE
July 15, 2014
My wife and I are coffee drinkers. Bevy Mae used to drink 12 cups of caffeinated coffee everyday. By her third cup she could boogie. ...>>Read More »
WRITING FREE
May 28, 2014
I wrote my first big story in fourth grade. I called it, Adventures on the Amazon. It's now lost to history, but I remember organizing it into chapters. Chapters were a big deal. ...Read More »
XANAX
May 27, 2014
Xanax works. If you suffer from panic attacks, Xanax stops them cold. Anxiety? Xanax stops that kind of suffering also. ...>>Read More »
DIGITIZING HISTORY
May 26, 2014
The underground press included not only thousands of community newspapers, but literary gazettes and alternative periodicals as well. ...Read More »
PLANES, TRAINS, & AUTOMOBILES; AND OUR FREEDOM
April 26, 2014
The question is simple: If circumstances conspired to take away cars and licenses so no one could drive again, would anyone feel free? …>>Read More »
WHY DO HUMANS LIKE MUSIC?
April 21, 2014
No one knows why humans like music when we hear certain patterns of sound and tempo. Scientists are conducting research to learn why. ...>>Read More »
INERRANCY AND DOCTRINAL PURITY
April 20, 2014
How did the Christian Bible come to be? It's complicated. I'm sure I don't understand. I think men collected books they liked over millennia. ...Read More »
BILLY LEE TWITTER LISTS (X)
April 19, 2014
NOTE FROM EDITORS: BILLY LEE'S "X" ACCOUNT DEACTIVATED 11-24-2024. COLLABORATION WITH BILLIONAIRE "LEON" NOT A TBLP CORE VALUE. [Updates to Twitter lists and contributors occur frequently. Anyone who wants to add celebrities, experts, or subjects please ask in comments. ...]Read More »
IS SOMETHING WRONG WITH AMERICA?
April 16, 2014
Americans asked before 911 said nothing is wrong. USA is where everyone wants to be. Folks risk everything to get here. Don't like it? Leave. ...>>Read More »
CONFESSING UNDER TORTURE
April 12, 2014
I was tortured. I confessed to everything. The odds seem good I may have actually done some version of the shameful things I confessed. ...>>Read More »
OBAMACARE AND THE LAW OF UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES
April 8, 2014
Opposition to Barack Obama's health care plan began six years ago, before he was elected President. Opposition has continued unabated. ...>>Read More »
CIVILIZATION AND INEQUALITY
April 1, 2014
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ON THE VERY SMALL
March 27, 2014
No one can know by looking that solid objects are made of tiny molecules separated from each other by tiny gaps. Molecules are too small. ...>>Read More »
AIR TRAVEL SAFETY
March 21, 2014
Airlines spend serious money to convince consumers flying is safe. Not only is flying safe, it is way more safe than driving. ...>>Read More »
ON AGING
March 19, 2014
Mom and Dad lost everything as they aged. It wasn't what they expected. They lost their beauty, their common sense, and their minds. ...>>Read More »
SCALE
March 17, 2014
The visible universe is big. Most scientists believe the invisible universe -- the universe no one can see -- is really big. ...>>Read More »
NUCLEAR POWER AND ME
March 12, 2014
Plant executives predicted that 1,000 nuclear power plants would be built in the USA by the year 2000. The plants would be "fail-safe". ...>>Read More »
SENSING THE UNIVERSE
March 11, 2014
What is the universe? Sensing is seeing, hearing, feeling, smelling, and tasting, right? These qualities don't exist in the universe. ...>>Read More »
A PERSONAL HISTORY OF TELEVISION, PART ONE
March 8, 2014
A neon sign emitted a glow of colors. I'd never seen anything like it. I asked our Japanese maid what it was. It's television, she said. …>>Read More »
WHAT IS MATH?
February 23, 2014
People think math is special --- a magic language that when tinkered with properly permits mortals to unravel mysteries known only by God. ...>>Read More »
SEGREGATION AND THE GATED COMMUNITY
February 22, 2014
The word "community" sounds egalitarian to people. Gated? No word has a fairer proportion of safety to airy openness in the image it conveys. ...>>Read More »
THE PARROT NEXT DOOR
February 18, 2014
Inside the shadows of the lanai next door lives a loquacious parrot. Bevy Mae and me can't see him, but we know he's in there, because he talks -- a lot. ...>>Read More »
SHOULD THIS BOOK BE FINISHED?
February 16, 2014
Writing "JOURNAL" has inflicted upon me a certain pain and anguish of mind and soul. Yes, I wrote it---secretly, furtively---in the sanatorium....>>Read More »
WHAT IS LIFE?
February 12, 2014
February is the 71st anniversary of the lecture series "What is Life?" presented at Trinity College by quantum physicist Erwin Schrödinger. ...>>Read More »
HEARING LOSS
January 28, 2014
As many of us approach our "Golden Years" (we never quite get there, if you know what I mean) we begin to experience the annoyances of aging. One annoyance is the way folks around us start to mumble....Read More »
CAPITALISM AND INCOME INEQUALITY
January 27, 2014
Capitalism differs little from Slavery until the legal environment secures certain rights to labor. USA crafted a Bill of Rights. ...Read More »
JOINT ISSUE ANNIVERSARY
January 25, 2014
The history of the underground press in general and of Joint Issue in particular remains largely untold by mainstream media until now. …>>Read More »
THE CHURCH AND THE GAY PEOPLE
January 24, 2014
The PA wore an Archie watch, a purple wristband, and a Batman necklace. You like cartoons? I asked. I love comics, he gushed, don't you? …Read More »
HOREMHEB, EXODUS PHARAOH?
January 23, 2014
The Exodus and Pharaoh Horemheb are connected by archaeology and historical records including the Bible, the only account extant today. ...Read More »