THREE MIRACLES THIS SATURDAY

I saw three miracles today, all in the American game of college football.  The day began with Ohio State beating Michigan 42-41 by intercepting the ball on the final play, before 113,000 spectators, preserving an undefeated regular season, something deserving of at least a micro-miracle.  Earlier this year, 115,109 was officially announced when Notre Dame visited Michigan.  That was the largest college crowd in history.Michigan...

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WHAT DOES HEAVEN LOOK LIKE?

Of course, the first question should be:  Is there a Heaven?  For the sake of this posting, let us, for now, assume there is some elysian, celestial, paradisiacal place after death.CNN's Anderson Cooper has a Special Report, To Heaven and Back, at 7 and 10 PM (Eastern time, or 2 and 5 PM Hawaii time) on Sunday, December 1.  This will mostly be about that return from Heaven experienced by orthopedic surgeon Mary Neal (above) in...

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THE MALTESE FALCON AND TURKEY #3

During the past week I seem to have focused on birds:  the Mockingjay, a Pueo and, of course, Turkeys, with today being #3.  So to continue this trend I start today with the Maltese Falcon.There is that 1930 book by Dashiell Hammet, rated #56 by the Modern Library among the 100 best English-language novels, featuring Sam Spade, for Hammet's birth name was Samuel.  The first Maltese Falcon was filmed in 1931 starring Ricardo Cortez...

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COOL WEDNESDAY

Yes, the East Coast is having a really cool late Fall (for the record, the astronomical winter begins on December 21 and ends on March 19--so if you think its cold now, most of you have a lot more months to get worse--by the way, USA Today yesterday had Naples, Florida as the hottest city in America at 80 F...actually, Honolulu hit 83 F).  As this is Wednesday, "Hump Day," let me again link you to the cool GEICO camel.  By the way,...

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DEVELOPMENTS IN OTEC AND FUSION

I was sent two bits of information by colleagues, one dealing with an award, and another, a plea for fusion.  Let me start with the First Deep Ocean Water Applications Society Prize bestowed on Yasuyuki Ikegami of Saga University in Hualien, Taiwan by DOWAS President Masayuki Takahashi, formerly from Tokyo and Kochi Universities.  As the two photos sent to me could not be inserted here, let me replace a photo of the three of us when we...

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