Science from Away: All about Us.

Science from Away: All about Us.
 
            A friend of my son’s was visiting us lately and told a story about a friend of her family’s in Connecticut who has inappropriate intense emotional responses: a car speeding ahead on the highway and then turning back into his lane too soon, or someone unexpectedly pulling out of [read more]

Science from Away: This and That: One, Two and Three

Science from Away: This and That: One, Two and Three.
 
            One -When something about the environment appears in Chemical and Engineering News, the trade magazine of the American Chemical Society, and also gets a segment on the McNeil-Lehr News-Hour on public television, the most respected news source in the USA, you can figure this is [read more]

Not only for the man on the mountain

Science from Away: Not only for the man on the mountain.
 
Most of us live on the electric grid and simply plug in and pay the fare. Some of us live off the grid and have waterfalls nearby to turn our own turbines and [read more]

The remarkable Reisers

Science from Away: The Remarkable Reisers.
 
            Imagine secret police, working in pairs as they always do, telling you that if you did not spy on a neighbor, about whom they were suspicious, and report the neighbors activities, that you would be considered to have antigovernment views meaning that you could not raise your two children [read more]

Science from Away - An Opinion on Street Lights

Science from Away: An opinion - please lower the wattage.
 
I love Inverness, I love her bones, her beautiful sea shore and small homes strung along the streets rising from the Gulf of Saint Lawrence. I love her resurrection from the coal blackened town [read more]