Depending upon which section of the newspaper you read on any given day, you’ll find that the current estimate of the age of the universe is somewhere between 14 and 16.5 billion years. As I recall, several years ago, that estimate was along the lines of some 4...
By the time you read this, the election will be over and hopefully the winner will have been declared. Or at least this is the way it should be. However in today’s media driven world, who can predict what is going to happen or might happen in the next...
This past weekend I’m driving around performing some of my routine housekeeping chores when I am struck dumbfounded by the sight of Christmas decorations already in place at one of the local malls close to my house. Now, I don’t know about you, but I suspect...
This week on PBS television, they’re having a program called “Colonial House”. If you get a chance to see it, do so. This is a semi reality program along the lines of two previous ones put out a couple of years ago. The first was “The 1900’s House” and the second was...
Some months ago, I started writing a series of columns called Ponder Points, which were these little bits of information you might want to try and work into some conversation. Not that they would necessarily do you any good, but then you just never know, do you?...
