C.S. Lewis warned about our final mastery over nature, and the inevitable drift into a future world where knowledge about the old world completely vanishes,…
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C.S. Lewis warned about our final mastery over nature, and the inevitable drift into a future world where knowledge about the old world completely vanishes,…
We may be entering a period where smartphones may be used to verify and track those immune to COVID-19. Read this thorough analysis, by 3…
We may be entering a period where smartphones may be used to verify and track those immune to COVID-19. Read this thorough analysis, by…
As I write today sheltered in place, out there somewhere nurses, doctors, and medical attendants are working around the clock at their peril ministering to…
It’s March 15 and the Ides of March are upon us. It marks the Roman deadline for settling debts of all stripes, one which…
Carvalko examines the latest scientific and technological developments likely to shape our post-human future. Using a multidisciplinary approach he details the latest gene…
THE PRINTS MOUNTED IN THE GALLERY I solved the mystery of where four photos I’d taken in 1969 traveled over the last 50…
Overlapping, crisscrossing, waves un-stilled. Roiled! Who kept track, Who kept time, One, two, each second, low, soothing, Lives lived in seconds, Seventy years, eighty years…
I CLOSE HER EYES fires stormed the endless earth spinning us beginnings, no end — a dearth of light, no dark, down, no up, a…
The peasant, or mechanic, imbibed the useful prejudice that he was advanced to the more dignified profession of arms, in which his rank and reputation…
At first, the Lilliputians are hospitable to Trump. They are a people who revel in displays of authority and performances of power. Republican senators seem…
Fifty-six years ago, this weekend, we repeatedly crossed and traveled over a Dallas route with a presidential motorcade that showed President John F. Kennedy’s head…
Severing of the Species Implications of Genetic Editing and Artificial Intelligence on the human substrate[1] Joseph R. Carvalko, Jr. Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics, Yale…
The bounty of affluence trickles to wet the lips of the have-nots while we applaud ourselves for our generous contemplation, tightly held in…
At times the future seemed long in coming, but looking back life passed so fast. If you didn’t grab hold, you missed it. I can’t…
IMPEACHMENTS bring back memories that I’d long shelved for good reason. Oh, not the reason you may think, i.e., living vicariously through the excising of…
On this day, 21,900 days ago, a train took a young man in search of his himself, a journey beginning on a rainy and cold…
It was the summer of 1959, I’d just finished my junior year at Central High and needed a job. My uncle Louie, through a family…
Chapter 1 – Continued Ensconced in the back seat Malone deposited headphones on her ears and grooved to the euphonic sounds of Deep Forest.…
“Government please show some heart, let my parent be free and everyone else.”
My father Billy, whose father was Billy, named me Billy, like America ain’t enough awash in Billy: Joel, Graham, Bob Thornton. But I’m not just…
It’s not the easel red-faced posing bare, It’s the brushes that keep me from daubing A palette of magentas and iridescent blues, It’s not…
I met Clove for the first and last time at the Peppermint Lounge, outside Biloxi, Mississippi. It was a Sunday night. Over a few whiskies…
This is a song, the lyrics which were written by Huddie William Ledbetter, the real name of Lead Belly, an American folk and blues singer,…
I saw the dark side of the Moon in the company of a few, who like me, were to bear witness to something…
I need but listen to this to imagine what it would be like if I were denied mi casita in NM. I can’t help but…
Was it her chestnut hair or the moon’s rays that leapt off in highlights after downpours in life’s gray rain? Was it the glitter drawn…
Sound has an uncanny way to take us back in time. I once had the good fortune to spend time on an isolated island off…
In South Dakota you can drive in nearly a straight line across I-90 for ten hours enveloped in standing corn and well kept farms yielding,…
As a kid I lived for a time in my grandparent’s house, an old Victorian, across the street from the Blue Moon Bar, smack in…