This coming weekend, the F1 circus will visit Austin for the US Grand Prix. On the same weekend, NASCAR will be visiting the Texas Speedway. The events are about 3 hours away, but you'd never know it from the views expressed by a concerned citizen. There’s very little competition between NASCAR and Formula 1, but there is some, and I think it’s an absolute insult, lack of respect, lack of professionalism on the part of Formula 1 to schedule a race on the very same dayEddie Gossage -...

If you have seen footage of this amazing save by Marc Marquez during practice for this year's Australian GP, you'll most certainly be amazed (as you should). While Marquez has gained a reputation for being able to save the seemingly impossible, this save must be the best one yet. To give perspective, most street riders can only manage a lean angle of about 45 degrees. Most racers can reach about 60 degrees. MotoGP riders, riding the best motorcycles in the world, on the best tires, can average around...

Not long ago, I wrote about the changes that have taken place since Edward Snowden revealed the extremes the US government had reached in order to "keep us safe". Today, on the Joe Rogan podcast, Snowden gave one of the best interviews I've heard from him. During the interview, he was able to talk about his childhood, his enthusiasm for technology since a young age, his various jobs in the intelligence community and finally, the catalysts that led him to share the bulk of documents confirming the US...

A few days ago, I wrote about Malcolm Gladwell's new book, Talking to Strangers, and the sad story about our default reaction in trying to make sense of the world and its dire consequences. Today I read a chapter on coupling and how strongly "coupled" (get it), our actions are to context or circumstances. One of the most stark examples was suicide in England in the middle of the last century. Gladwell explains that at its peak, the number of annual suicides due to gas inhalation reached around...

I have been reading Malcolm Gladwell's most recent book, Talking to Strangers. The book, like other books from Gladwell, give us an insight into realizing what we thought we fully understood, we actually may not had. In Talking to Strangers, Gladwell goes over several recent news reports and discusses how they became so. One particular such discussion is around the now-confirmed and sentenced sexual abuse perpetrated by US Gymnastics' Larry Nassar. Nassar was the organization's doctor and for a long time there had been allegations of misconduct. The...

The drums of impeachment are getting louder and louder. Equally, are Trump's best strategies for misinformation and doubt. Trump has never shied away from less-than-truthful comments and even all-out lies. To him, all is fair. If you pay close attention, he began by relying on the oldest of his tricks; there was nothing wrong. He took it one step further by annotating it with "perfect". However, the basis of his strategy is the same one, there is nothing to see here folks. The other strategy is to demonize...

#snowden #privacy #newera Edward Snowden is back in the news. Snowden is promoting a new book, Permanent Record. In the book, a memoir, he goes on to provide a more in-depth record of what happened. This is not a book review, rather a look at how things have changed, if at all, since his revelations, back in 2013. I have been working in technology for a long time, circa 2001. I got my first computer back in the early 90s, during the Prodigy and AOL days. I still...

Even in a house of worship, while praying, there are thieves and criminals stalking you. Take a look at this video for proof that "you can walk a horse to water, but you can't make him drink".

The blue bin is for recycling. We all know that. Plastics are bad, paper is good. Recycling saves the environment. Right? But have you ever wondered where it came from? In other words, why do we recycle vs. the landfill? The answer to this question may surprise you as it is less scientific that you would imagine. While recycling is a good thing and something we should do, it began as the dream of an industrial Southerner from Alabama. The story goes that in the 80s, Lowell Harrelson...

#trump #election2020 #texasshooting #ohioshooting #racistchants No mass shooting had been so clearly a hate crime, that was initiated by Trump, more so than the one from El Paso. By now, we all know what happened. A lunatic, white supremacist, male, drove to a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, to try to kill as many Mexicans as possible. That same day, another lunatic, white supremacist, male did the same thing in Dayton, Ohio. And where did their guidance come from? The very President of the United States. The "greatest...