Gerald D. Skoning
They were called Doolittle’s Raiders. It was a raid planned in retaliation for the attack on Pearl Harbor. It was an intrepid plan staffed with all brave volunteers on a one-way trip to bomb Tokyo and then try to bail…
The Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearings on Supreme Court nominee Judge Neil Gorsuch were a week-long tutorial on the separation of powers under our Constitution. The proceedings examined in excruciating detail the role of the Congress to make laws and…
The average human brain has 100 billion neuron cells and boasts another 100 trillion synapses. Now, that’s an amazing amount of memory and computation power all jammed into a three-pound human organ. By contrast, bee brains are small, or should…
Astronomers have announced the discovery of several Earth-size planets orbiting a cool red dwarf star named Trappist-1 about 40 light years, or just 235 trillion miles, from Earth (quite close in cosmic terms). Some of these could have water on…
The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor 75 years ago last week was famously the “day which will live in infamy.” Veterans of that horrible day were properly honored as intrepid members of the “Greatest Generation.” But, the December 7 disaster…
President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday suggested the U.S. government should cancel a planned order with Boeing for planes to serve as the new Air Force One, making the aircraft maker the latest company to come under scrutiny by the incoming…
If you are headed to Cleveland for the GOP Convention, feel free to take your AR 15 assault rifle and your .357 Magnum handgun, but leave behind your squirt guns, umbrellas, and paintball guns, or you may end up in…
The recent crash of Egypt Air Flight 804 in the Mediterranean Sea south of Greece that killed all 66 aboard prompted a massive search that revealed a debris field consisting of seat parts, luggage, and body parts believed to have…
Pushed by a laser beam: Can Breakthrough Starshot reach Alpha Centauri? It’s called Breakthrough Starshot. It’s an ambitious name for a remarkably ambitious project. It’s the brainchild of Yuri Milner, a Russian philanthropist and Internet entrepreneur, who, together with a team…
It’s called Breakthrough Starshot. It’s an ambitious name for a remarkably ambitious project. It’s the brainchild of Yuri Milner, a Russian philanthropist and Internet entrepreneur, who, together with a team of prominent astronomers and cosmologists, plans to send a fleet…
