It was a familiar scenario: The run was blue, the sky bluer still, and I was cruising down 8,765-foot Mount Whitehorn in Banff National Park in Canada. Packed powder was flying up from the edges of my snowboard into the just-below-freezing air. I was grinning beneath my ski mask. ...more

January 11, 2009

Have you ever suspected that someone could be secretly observing unusual items you drop into your supermarket shopping basket? ...more

July 9, 2008

TAMPA - Who needs an expensive rocket when you can ride high on a cheap balloon? That's the attitude of scientists who recently finished a landmark test flight of a telescope on a big bag filled with helium. ...more

November 11, 2007

I was watching a memorial TV show honoring diva Beverly Sills. During a taped interview she said something similar to the fact that she was less disturbed thinking: I shouldn't have done that rather than I should have done that. I know that we all have done something in our lifetimes that we regret; things that we feel we shouldn't have done. But for most of us it's been some minor infraction. A venial sin not a mortal one as it were. ...more

October 6, 2007