A Letter to Micheal Pollan: author of “The Omnivores Dilemma”
Dear Micheal Pollan, The following is a response to The Omnivores Dilemma. It appears that you were right in believing that a lot of people care about what they’re eating, enough, at least, to create such a large audience as their is for your book. I agree with your understated thesis that we as humans…
Black Bears of Coal
JR Hay “Man has always required heat, synonymous with life and energy, and worshipped light. He learned to capture both in fire, and with that discovery came a new mastery over the quality of his environment.” – Kenneth L. Lasson In the Tamarack outside of Beckly I palmed a coal figurine. Its form is of…
Thoughts on A.I.
Artificial Intelligence is only necessary for a world of artificial design – namely human design. Thinking machines to do the thinking for us.
Books Worth Reading
Depending on how you stretch the definition of a book, I would surmise that there are more books written than humans alive to read them. Often these books collect dust in your local used bookstore, a place whose business it seems is to collect mediocre works, sprinkling in a great classic of Dostoevsky or collection…
Space Industry of the 22nd Century: Where We Are and Where We’ll Go
What then do we project on the future of space travel to serve our most looming fears of today?
From One Mountain to the Next: Student to Engineer, Engineer to Writer
‘I’ve made it’…‘Oh… I’ve made it’. Those words which are for so long filled with desire and once realized anxiety inducing.
A Tour of the Knights Tour
The premise is simple, take a Knight at any of the four corners of the chess board and move such that you land on every space once without repetition.
Statistical Madness
This means that our new adjusted jackpot prize for successfully creating the perfect bracket is 4.27 trillion dollars or 4.2698093837×10^12.
Strangers Riding in a Strange Land
In stark contrast, here in Charlotte white painted stripes define the line between 50 mph multi-ton ballistics and a 180 pounder going 15.
Quantum Mechanics Interpretations Explored
My favorite theory is the Shut up and Calculate theory which proposes that it doesn’t matter as long as experiment keeps matching up, and matching up it does.
My Five Favorite Reads of 2023
Why five? Well the line has to be drawn somewhere and the top 23.8 percent is as good a place as any.
The Sun Bear Journal 