During high school, I interned and volunteered at a planetarium and had my own 6 inch telescope. In college my major was Astrophysics, the result of a childhood dream of understanding the stars, the galaxies, and the universe. I have always been fascinated by space and it's wonderful to now have at my fingertips more information and better images than even the telescopes at UCLA displayed. Now...read more

A few years ago I read a book called "Paradox of Choice" by Barry Schwartz. The book delves into our modern life and explores how the staggering number of choices we have available to us can actually cause us to freeze up. Just think what happens in your mind while you're standing in front of the toothpaste aisle.

I think it's time for a revise on the book, this time dealing with...read more

As a kid, I was fascinated by science, going through dinosaurs, my Radio Shack 160-in-1 electronics kit, starter microscope kit, and then my first telescope. Man, was I missing out! Kids today have at their fingertips more knowledge than was known at any prior point in history. It's just up to their imagination and a little help from Mom and Dad to begin the exploration.

I started putting together...read more

It's a little amazing that what was once a simple little college project has grown into a world-spanning service used by hundreds of millions of people. It's become the Kleenex of the search engine world, so ubiquitous in usage that it's now a part of our dictionaries and our common language. Of course we're talking about Google. More than any other search engine, it's captured...read more

A couple of weeks ago, I stood on my soap box and talked a bit about all the social networking hoopla that's taking the internet by storm. This week I decided to talk about it again, however, this time I'm going to talk about the positives.

I'm a Facebook-er and a bit of a twitter-er. I still haven't formed a habit of updating and posting daily snippets of my life, but I do use it...read more

A curious phenomenon is sweeping the world these days. It's called social networking and in my opinion it's getting a bit out of hand. Social networking includes the biggies you hear about on the news, like MySpace and Facebook, along with countless smaller, but growing sites that either target specific demographic groups, or just cater to a topic.

These days it seems more likely that a 20...read more