by James Heflin | Dec 14, 2010 | Ten Gallon Liberal
Here in the future, artists conspire underground: “Stepping into the station was like stepping into a space outside of time. Utterly devoid of light, there was no way to mark the passage of time except for the occasional dull roar of a train in the distance. I...
by James Heflin | Dec 20, 2010 | Ten Gallon Liberal
And I thought it was pretty cool to build a Lego rocket. Someone has replicated the Antikythera mechanism with Legos. Said mechanism is an ancient artifact found on a sunken Greek ship that appears to have been a machine to calculate planetary motion. Here it is in...
by James Heflin | Dec 23, 2010 | Ten Gallon Liberal
The Washington Post explores the map of domestic spying in the U.S. with a remarkable gathering of information (two years in the making). It’s enough to make you say, “Well, if you haven’t done anything wrong…” Here’s the opening:...
by James Heflin | Dec 29, 2010 | Ten Gallon Liberal
We inhabit one of those “many worlds” Hugh Everett talked about. I know this because, when I was a kid, “dilemma” was spelled “dilemna.” I swear it’s true. A surprising percentage of people who attended school between the...
by James Heflin | Jan 3, 2011 | Ten Gallon Liberal
What did the great minds of 1931 predict for the far future year of 2011? An interesting find from a blog called Abnormal Use via a 1931 New York Times story. Nothing about flying cars or jetpacks–those obsessions seem to have arrived later. I know they were...
