Author: JimF

Hans Rosling died at 68. He was a Swedish physician and statistician. His TED talks made him a celebrity because he was able to take complex ideas, with vast data sets, and present them in clear comprehensible forms. When I was...

In the past few weeks, I have read three outstanding books about science, mathematics, astronomy, physics, and the role women have played in them in the past 150 years. Before the advent of electronic computational machines, a...

4th graders and their families get a free parks, national monuments, and federal lands pass under Pres. Obamas initiative. http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/white-house-picked-4th-graders-free-national-park/story According to a...

In the movie musical Gigi, Maurice Chevalier and Hermoinie Gingold sing “I Remember it Well.” The song could have, for good reason, been titled “I Misremember it Well.” In fact there’s even an...

Lt. Sulu is still taking us to places where most of us have never ventured. When he was a child, George Takei and his family were forced into an internment camp for Japanese-Americans, as a “security” measure during...