Wherein my book becomes a strange mirror — In Part I of this article I described the strange behavior of the reflective properties of semi-glossy book covers. …

Wherein my book becomes a strange mirror — Every once in a while I will notice something strange about my corner of the world and wonder what is the cause of it. Now, I have a Ph.D. in physics, so I try to draw upon that ancient knowledge (because it has decades since I practiced) to explain away…

An Explanation of What the Scientists Told Us Decades Ago but Which We Chose To Ignore Anyway (Yeah, Very Bad Idea) — This series on climate change has FIVE parts. In Part I of this series we were introduced to the essence of the unfolding climate change crisis and saw how its greenhouse gas scientific underpinnings could be traced back more than 150 years. In Part II we looked for clues as…

An Explanation of What the Scientists Told Us Decades Ago but Which We Chose To Ignore Anyway (Yeah, Very Bad Idea) — This series on climate change has FIVE parts. In Part I of this series we were introduced to the essence of the unfolding climate change crisis and saw how its greenhouse gas scientific underpinnings could be traced back more than 150 years. In Part II we looked for clues as…

An Explanation of What the Scientists Told Us Decades Ago but Which We Chose To Ignore Anyway (Yeah, Very Bad Idea) — This series on climate change has FIVE parts. In Part I of this series we were introduced to the essence of the unfolding climate change crisis and saw how its greenhouse gas scientific underpinnings could be traced back more than 150 years. In Part II we looked for clues as…

An Explanation of What the Scientists Told Us Decades Ago but Which We Chose To Ignore Anyway (Yeah, Very Bad Idea) — This series on climate change has FIVE parts. In Part I of this series we were introduced to the essence of the unfolding climate change crisis and saw how its greenhouse gas scientific underpinnings could be traced back more than 150 years. In Part II (this page) we look for…

An Explanation of What the Scientists Told Us Decades Ago but Which We Chose To Ignore Anyway (Yeah, Very Bad Idea) — How do you tell humanity that its time may be at an end? Turns out this is very difficult to do. It is not exactly the kind of message people either want to absorb or repeat to others once they grasp the essence of what it is they have learned. …

Hint: Being a computer geek will help — As puzzles go this one is fairly easy to crack. It contains part of a message which may reveal… well, we will get to that. Here is the puzzle — can you decipher it?

A reader valuation guide for curious authors — Allow me to introduce to you Medium Unlimited, the imaginary division of Medium which caters to novel-length works of fiction penned by some of the most innovative authors of the twenty-first century. Not so imaginary are the features of the Medium Unlimited program, primitive though they may be at present…