Without a Viable Centrist
Sunday, May 23rd, 2010 Posted in General | No Comments »David Brooks is my favorite columnist. As a moderate and a centrist, I applaud his effort to point out the need for a strong centrist voice. Kids, your grandpa is not a writer. I do my best to make my thoughts to you ...
Boomers aren’t babies anymore
Monday, April 6th, 2009 Posted in General, media, science | No Comments »About 25% of the US population was born between 1946 and 1964. They are now between the ages of 44 and 62. Barack Obama is 47. This generation has looked upon itself as being special. If the climate actually starts to adversely ...
The Boomer News Year-end Blog
Tuesday, December 30th, 2008 Posted in General, media | 3 Comments »Naming this blog after a hand written newspaper I wrote for our 5th grade class in 1941 is somewhat ironic. Since the first Baby Boomer got the first social security check, there has been a flood of new Baby Boomer ...
The Black Hole Singularity Becomes a Big Bang Singularity
Sunday, September 21st, 2008 Posted in General, cosmology | No Comments »Well kids, in our Nested Universes concept we suggest the material sucked into a black hole piles up at the Planck minimum distance, with no place to go, eventually has enough energy to make the leap from being a black hole singularity ...
The Big Brain Theory
Tuesday, January 15th, 2008 Posted in General, consciosness, cosmology | 8 Comments »The NY Times science section [1-15-08] has an article about the Big Brain theory. Considered the most embarrasssing prediction in the history of cosmology, if not science. The fact is, that any conjecture, that lies beyond our seeable, measureable universe is ...
Do Living People Outnumber the Dead?
Tuesday, August 21st, 2007 Posted in General, family | No Comments »[Teens & over] In the Sept. 2007 Scientific American I was pleased to see 2 new books in their review section that related to my Boomer News hobby subjects. "The Endless Universe" & "The First Thought" Wow! books are coming ...
You can digitally memorize your life … but why?
Saturday, February 17th, 2007 Posted in General | 1 Comment »A guy in the March 2007 Scientific American is continously recording everything he sees and hears to acquire an infallible artificial memory of his life. Retrieval and analizing all that data becomes a life long task ... An oxymoron, a ...
Getting started
Thursday, September 14th, 2006 Posted in General, family | 6 Comments »I'm 3/4 quarters of a century old and I've created a blog to learn more about subjects that are of interest to me. I plan to bring our 10 grandchildren into my little blogging adventure in hopes that they become ...