Hooray for Western Liberal Democracies! Just when you thought that rigid Fascist-Nationalists like Putin, Jinping, and Trump were going to take over the world, Zelensky creates a fantastic advertisement for the kick-ass merits of good ol’ traditional American and European values (which seem to utilize smart/diverse people to create an…

Knowing that one’s overall health depends heavily on “Blue Zone” habits, engineers, vaccines, and lay workers, I’ve tried to come up with a healthcare system that puts doctors in their proper place and frees most of us from the expensive bean-counters siphoning off much of the healthcare dollar. …

By certain circumstances, most of my ancestral lines include New England Revolutionary War Patriots, and I have just finished doing extensive research on their lives and situations. Meanwhile, January 6th MAGA protestors (an apparent hodgepodge of QAnon, Proud Boys, Anti-Vaxers, and various Trump-supporting elements) like to compare themselves to 1776…

…and go 斯普拉特·克普伦克! Сплат/Керплунк! اسپلات/کرپونک! respectively, while their notions of a Western demise may be greatly overstated. With a renewed East/West “Cold War”, and a resurgent Chinese and Russian Nationalistic “hard on” for the US and Europe, one wonders if minus the nuclear-card, the East has the tech capability to hang with the West over the long-term. It is all reminiscent of Germany/Japan in World War II, and the tendency of fervent xenophobes to lack patience and overplay their hand. Meanwhile, the Democratic West putts along, warts and all (indicative of transparent societies that still blend diverse elements and seem to ultimately kick tech-butt). Globalization tried to include all (in the name of Kumbaya) but for now has failed…will it rebound?

Approximately 40% of the homeless Nationally are on the West Coast, with 20% in California alone. A high proportion are in San Francisco and Los Angeles, to the consternation of businesses and residents, due to the high percentage of drug-use, public-health and harassment issues (since up to 50% of homeless…

With increased efficiencies and price drops, rooftop solar has the potential to provide 40% of all National electricity demand (according to a recent article in Nature Magazine). Unfortunately, greedy Utility companies (who often cannot meet demand and force energy “blackouts”) are conspiring to make homeowners pay an onerous tax to…

With 80% of California water use devoted to agriculture during this historic drought, you would think that farmers would be making a massive shift from flood irrigation to drip irrigation, with a corresponding shift to drip-friendly crops (away from alfalfa, cotton, rice to tomatoes, peppers, other vegetables). A closer look…

The effects of global warming and melting polar ice have already had an impact in terms of extended droughts, more extreme hurricanes and tornadoes, floods and forest fires. Resultant changes in ocean temperatures may affect ocean currents, pushing storms in northern latitudes northward. …

A large, looming environmental threat that gets little attention is natural methane release from receding polar ice caps, and CO2 release from massive forest fires. There is controversy on whether and how to intercept these naturally-occurring (yet human-influenced), global warming gases. …