Category: Articles
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I love space. I love it so much I am going to take time before writing my next article to write this exclusive blog post about the topic of space. Specifically, about how its not a vacuum in the dreaded sense of the word. There is quite a lot of stuff flying around in the…
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In 1862, when most of the world’s navies were still wooden, the Union was blockading the two largest cities of the Confederate States in northern Virginia. The metal plated CSS Virginia engaged the three wooden ships in the blockade, destroying two and crippling the third before the sun set. On the following day, on the way…
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We’ve come a long way, baby. Since the middle of the last century with the birth of the first mainframes in government labs, our world has been changing to an increasingly digital one. Our utilities are now ‘smart grids’, all of our intersections and drivers are equipped with digital cameras at all times, and a…
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The Internet, how does it work? Is it a series of tubes carrying messages everywhere? Is it a dump truck with a capacity? We know, like all things computer, it has two parts; software and hardware. The software are the protocols installed on all our computers (TCP/IP), all of the content of the web, and…
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What can we do? How can we build a better tomorrow and drive the economy in the process? End user gadgets have become very powerful and diverse, each of them connecting to the Internet in one way or another. But we can do much better than this in terms of integration and connectivity. Neil deGrasse Tyson…
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The past few years have been hectic to say the least. There has been no relent in the barrage of stories on a weak economy, global unrest, destabilizing environments, and gross political incompetence at a time we desperately need action. So I tried a radical new course of action recently and was completely satisfied with…
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Here’s the thing, Iran, I can totally respect your desire for a predominantly nuclear energy based society despite sitting on a black goldmine of a landscape. It is difficult to not use that oil directly and reap the benefits of such a stable fuel source, it usually makes nations powerful in the region. But clever…
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Two years ago, the Air Force asserted that only 311 nuclear weapons were needed to secure ourselves, and there was an excess of 4,802 weapons. What to do? What to do? Well, we are often reminded of nuclear power’s hippie cousin, the nuclear power plant. And he’s been doing his homework for the past few…
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It’s that season again. No, not hurricane season. Not duck or rabbit season. It’s flu season, and being down and out has given me time to reflect on just how far we have come towards a healthy lifestyle, and maybe how much farther we have to go. One of my favourite anecdotes on the triumphs…