Updated 9/21/17: minor cleanup Global Warming is All Man’s Fault for burning hydrocarbons to Produce Energy This is a fundamental tenet of the Green Party Line. The basic idea is that Man has been accelerating the introduction of CO2 into the atmosphere since...
Updated 9/21/17: eliminated some redundancy with prior posts. Green tactics I. The Greens employ a bunch of scare tactics to make their points, which I regard as scientific charlatanism. One of their most popular ploys is misdirection. They present data in ways that...
My Idiot Uncle (age 9). I spent some time living with my uncle near Orlando, FL. He had a place on one of four sand-bottom lakes in the area, which I believe was later preempted by Disney World. Only two homes on the lake had cleared land. Each day my uncle would...
I have the distinction of being the first person ever drafted out of MIT’s graduate school. I spent my two fun-filled years at Paradise in the Pines — Ft. Bragg, NC, home to the XVIIIth Airborne Corps, the 82nd Airborne Division, and Special Forces. Back then...
After the Army, I was out of money and decided to try working for a living. I was hired by Geoscience, an MIT spinoff that specialized in electrical measurements. Geologists and geophysicists are crazy. For example,… Only geologists regard a rainy day as good...
What’s Wrong with This Picture? (age 17) We were living in New York City at the time and I needed to apply to college. I had won a Regents scholarship that was good only in NY state, so I applied to Manhattan College and Cornell. Cornell did not reply to my...
My father insisted on coming with me to register at MIT. As we drove in from Logan Airport along Storrow Drive, my father asked the taxi driver, “What are all those factories across the river?” The taxi driver replied, “That’s MIT.” MIT has what might be charitably...
MIT was an eye-opener, academically. You showed up as a hot shot Salutorian from your high school and got a rude awakening when you found that all your classmates were Valedictorians and you are graded on a curve. It can be a tough place — if you take it...
First term junior year, I was taking Advanced Calculus for Engineers. The only classes I attended were the three quizzes. Since I hadn’t picked up the quizzes, I wasn’t sure where I stood. So I went to one class and after the ending bell I approached the Prof and the...
In junior year I finally figured out that competing with a gazzillion other physicists in the job market was not a good strategy. (In the ‘50s every high school science nerd wanted to be a physicist and build atomic bombs to nuke the Russkies.) So, I went into the...
