I grew up in Kansas. It’s neighbor to the east is Missouri, the ‘Show Me’ state. Don’t just tell me, show me. The ‘Show Me’ slogan was coined near the turn of the 20th century. We are now approaching the quarter marker of the 21st century. It seems we all need to question practically everything,…
Nations and corporations are competing to develop and dominate artificial intelligence: Ai. Ai: More Than a Game Modern AI goes back to the 1950’s. That’s when John McCarthy, a computer scientist coined the term artificial intelligence. But the world at large didn’t to take notice until 1997. That’s when world chess champion Garry Kasparov was…
A spy balloon floated across the United States gathering intelligence until it was shot down by an F-22 over the Atlantic. Additional Objects in the Sky Only days later, unknown objects in the skies over Alaska, Canada and Lake Huron were shot down by sidewinder missiles. We’ve learned that one missile missed its target and…
Escape the Coming Tribulation If you live in California, you’ve probably heard the phrase ‘the big one’. This is common in light of a major earthquake somewhere on our planet. Undoubtably, you’ve seen heartbreaking images and videos of the loss of life and property damage in the quakes in Turkey and Syria. The Big One…
I grew up in a small town in Kansas; in a region known as tornado alley. When I was about 12 years old, my teacher took his class camping. The campsite was several miles outside of town. We got on the highway, then turned off on a dirt road to get to the campsite. When…
The Land of Oz It was the mid-1960’s. The night sky in rural Kansas was as black as India ink except for the countless shining stars and other lights. The other lights were what had captured the attention of my older brother and me. How odd that those other lights, three of them, stood out…
Signs of a pandemic coming from China are not good, but God is!
My flight from from Minneapolis-St Paul to Wichita, KS was ‘different’. I discovered something worse than a loud baby on an airplane; it’s a loud adult talking to a baby on an airplane. The friendly but loud-talking lady in the seat behind me was baby-talking to the child across the isle from me. Fortunately, the…