There are many bricks in the veterans memorial plaza where I live in Texas each with a different name and a different story. The brick I want to talk about looks a bit different than the rest and I hope to explain why, and why it sits with all the others. It all started...

Pfizer on Friday became the first company to seek emergency authorization for a coronavirus vaccine in the United States, a landmark moment and a signal that a powerful tool to help control the pandemic could begin to be available by late December.  ...

Once upon a time I was doing research as a physicist on the military applications of lasers and electro-optic systems. As a consequence of world events the military became wary of having their anti-aircraft radar systems attacked by anti-radar missiles. Better they thought to look at methods of detecting aircraft by passive means to...

In an old blog post I described my dilemma in voting for a presidential candidate in the 2016 election. I described the dilemma as like Hobson’s choice but modified that description because Hobson had the choice of something or nothing; a bad horse or no horse at all. My dilemma was one of choosing...