Using plasma physicsto examine the human brain. Way cool!

I post an analysis on Mushin - No Mind and Dark Matter, a cognitive comparision on the thesis of "Becoming Batman" and achieving expertise in any endeavor. It's also the first day of the "Year of the Dragon." Enjoy!

By the application of nanotechnology, scientists can possibly increase the efficiency of this "green tech" solution to our fossil fuel dependency.

The Tuskegee Airman experiment was supposed to fail. It was the pseudo-science of Eugenics as practiced by the military: blacks were not seen as "smart enough" to pilot high performance aircraft in combat. Just as blacks were not seen as "smart enough" to quarterback for an NFL team before Doug Williams.

Whether you support President Obama or Juan Williams, the issue is the same: they, being black aren't "smart enough" to govern a country or ask a presidential candidate a question regarding relating to a black electorate. As of December 2011, the economy is not "great," but it is better than it was:

Red Tails mustbe supported because it is not fiction, it is ignored history that supports a preconceived bias for a certain segment that needs our debasement for their own elevation.

That is why black speculative fiction must be written, purchased, supported. We can - to paraphrase Karl Rove - "create our own realities," not in support of dreamed empires, but in support of our, and our children's esteem.

ABC News: Red Tails movie honors Tuskegee Airmen

Washington Post: Luke Weathers Jr., Tuskegee airman, buried at Arlington as ‘Red Tails’ movie released

WHODATHUNKIT? Call me "human guinea pig."

Seriously, with nano-enhanced technology, scientists are hoping to enhance hearing on the nano-lengh scales. Beyond "Who-ville" it would be cool to listen to what an atom "sounds like."

Lizards and robotics: WHODATHUNKIT?

On the national celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King’s birthday, you put out the political dog whistle to a South Carolina audience that “blacks should want jobs, not food stamps,” and calling our nation’s first African American president the “food stamp president.” You also disrespected the moderator – Juan Williams – by calling him by his first name (almost like calling him “boy”), when he called you by your former title of “Speaker.” I wonder if you’d been so bold if Herman Cain were still in the race?

On my blog post September 16, 2010, I wrote about poverty, particularly those that had been driven into poverty due to the recession.

One of those people…was me.

I also posted an article from Black Voices regarding the extreme effort college-educated African Americans were putting forth to get jobs with not as demonstrative success as the rest of the country.

That was also…me.

I have a degree in Engineering Physics from North Carolina A and T State University. I worked in a warehouse at UPS with that degree, slinging boxes between the hours of 3 – 9 AM, Monday – Friday making $6.52/hour. Do the math…

And yes, Mr. Gingrich, I went on food stamps…, with a degree in Physics.

I wrote a blog that became a book that described my angst, my self-doubt, my hurt pride, my desire to provide for my family in the manner I’d trained myself in the sciences to provide.

I now work in New York back in the industry I’d left eight years ago, making an income that allows me to provide for that same family…honorably. That was not a government program, sir: that was the Grace of God.

You cannot logically paint a broad brush on any one group’s desire over another to remain on food stamps – your data and political dog whistle is quite inaccurate: “Despite significantly higher participation rates for Blacks and persons of Hispanic origin, 65 percent of all participants were White.” (Census.gov)

I am not running for president, I am the “We the People” you’re running in the GOP primaries to qualify to govern.

Your behavior in this primary process is an abomination to the political process the Founding Fathers – you say you revere – established.

The day after celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. your crass, unprofessional comments demean the station you supposedly “occupy.” Perhaps after your bath, may I suggest soap applied to the orifice in front of the oval called your face? Please be suitably aggressive in application.

I don’t debate, but I do vote! If you were to get the nomination by some stretch of a miracle, you won’t be getting mine.

Using a Star Wars metaphor to talk about Dark Matter.

A lot of things were suggested in Star Trek that have become reality - sliding doors in department stores, I-Pads, cell phones, teleportation and now Magnetic Memory.

Explore the links: Doc was a "Trekkie," and the embed at the Trekkie link is a speech never quoted in the media. His courage and sacrifice allowed us all to "live long, and prosper." I was a freshman at NC A&T State University when this song dropped:

Something to Brighten Your Day: Nuff said. Grins and giggles, and you might learn some Calculus out of the deal.

Theory: it's a word that's confused with uninvestigated opinion, so politically if one doesn't want to accept the implications of Evolution or Global Warming, "theory" is supposed to disqualify any further discussions.

From Wikipedia:

"Social Darwinism is a term commonly used for theories of society that emerged in England and the United States in the 1870s, seeking to apply the principles of Darwinian evolution to sociology and politics.^[1] It especially refers to notions of struggle for existence being used to justify social policies which make no distinction between those able to support themselves and those unable to support themselves. The most prominent form of such views stressed competition between individuals in laissez-faire capitalism but it is also connected to the ideas of eugenics, scientific racism, imperialism,^[2] fascism, Nazism and struggle between national or racial groups."

I get that, and chiefly as a member of a group that's been used on, identify with the concern. However, with global warming there will come a point where there's "no turning back" and no starships to Exodus us to the stars.

The Bible has also been twisted to justify slavery as well as a perpetual curse of servitude. Mainstream Mormonism has since repudiated the notion of lighter skin being a sign that you did something right in the pre-existence during the war in heaven, and dark skin, well...we were "neutral"; we did not pick sides, our skin a sign of "the curse" (Mormon eschatology). Before the 2008 presidential elections, a friend forwarded a photo from England of an American riding a Harley. On the back of his T-shirt, this statement: "N----r please! It's the WHITE HOUSE!"

Any dominate group that wants to remain dominant latches on to the most convienient theory that justifies their already set opinions of themselves. It is a pathology that self-esteem is only justified by another groups subjugation and misery.

Pythagoras would have a time today!

Neutrinos are known to exist, but no one at this time knows how much a "neutrino mass" is. They are similar to the electron, yet don't carry an electrical charge (i.e. "neutral").

It's about the Tuskegee Airmen, and Hollywood thinks it's not "green" enough, meaning...well, see what George Lucas has to say about it:

Ohm's law still applies: at the nano-scale level. The presumption was that quantum effects would take precident. I still think it will the smaller the technology gets and the more we demand of it. Meaning, we'll need some "replacements" as the nerd workforce ages. More kids need sci-fi to inspire them.

It's not too hard to extrapolate Xray vision, or at least how such a "super power" could work. "We have the technology..."

Terrahertz radiation, the dream of most pre pubescent and pubescent boys:

More on the Higgs Boson. If at first you don't succeed...

Happy Friday, Peeps! The Ig Nobel Awards...

We sometimes forget that the road of life we travel is fraught with "bumps" and challenges. This young lady is fulfilling her dream of getting a PhD in Astronomy and raising a child as a single mother...