Jack Henderson

I just looked up at the calendar and realized that I’ve been fairly absent from the site for a little while. Time gets away from me, but I haven’t been idle. I’ve been working pretty obsessively on some new things for you, and I’ll pass along a little more useful information on that just as [...]

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A fascinating story from John Noble Wilford, for the New York Times.   Yet the suspension bridges were familiar and vital links in the vast empire of the Inca, as they had been to Andean cultures for hundreds of years before the arrival of the Spanish in 1532. The people had not developed the stone [...]

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…I owned three of them. Pictured here is one of the first computer’s I ever used, a TRS-80 Model 1. It came with either 1K or 4K of RAM, and for “sound” we put an AM radio next to the monitor. (The RFI squeals and hums were only somewhat synchronized to the action on the [...]

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Charles Kernaghan is the director and chief firebrand of the National Labor Committee. Check out the organization and their accomplishments, I think you’ll be inspired. From the Washington Post Kernaghan will perhaps forever be known as the activist who made Kathie Lee Gifford cry when he revealed during congressional testimony in 1996 that child laborers [...]

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SF author Ben Bova presents an essay on the prescience of science fiction, with particular emphasis on societal trends toward a dumbed-down populace. The theme of the story Bova references, The Marching Morons by CM Kornbluth, was somewhat echoed recently in Mike Judge’s film Idiocracy. Not really, but somewhat. Point is, there are powerful interests in this world that benefit enormously [...]

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