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American Ingenuity at Work
by Phil Baker There's often a fascinating story behind the development of a new product, sometimes more interesting than the product itself. Some products are the result of happenstance, an accident,...
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Innovation Isn't About Math
by Lane WallacePresident Obama's State of the Union speech this week was -- among other things -- a call to action for strengthening innovation in America. "The first step in winning the future," he...
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Student Life: Still More Views
By John TierneyMany thanks to the many readers who wrote in response to my recent post about contemporary student life and my plea for help sorting out the messages we're getting from assorted media...
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One More Note About Integrative Thinking
By Lane WallaceA reader sent me the following note in response to my post on innovation not being about math, but about more flexible, "integrative" thinking:Most schools where I live seem to tout...
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Did Obama's Promise Trigger the Arab Revolt?
This is the first post by a member of the coming week's guest team, Chuck Spinney. More background on him and the others here.A word more about Chuck before turning the floor back to him and other...
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Pepco: No More Mr. Nice Guy
Today this site's readers are getting some highly diverse guest testimony -- Xujun Eberlein introducing the mystery of the American-run "concentration camp" near Chongqing that is legendary inside...
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Reagan and Obama: Pragmatism Ascendant
By John TierneyThe cover article in the most recent issue of Time magazine asserts that President Obama sees Ronald Reagan as a role model. In their article, Michael Scherer and Michael Duffy examine...
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Sputnik Moments
by Bruce J. HolmesIn President Obama's recent State of the Union Address, he made the assertion that "this is our generation's Sputnik moment." Therefore, we need "to reach a level of research and...
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The Latest Huntsman 2012 News
I feel compelled to step in and briefly say something about this. Previously here and here.Various sources -- notably Jake Tapper here, and Politico here -- are reporting that "White House officials"...
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Another Kind of American History in Chongqing, 1: Prologue
by Xujun EberleinIn the summer of 1987, my future husband, Bob, cycled across China -- I think he was the first American who did that -- as he came to meet me in Chongqing. As a yet-to-be-betrothed...
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Darkness in Kennedy's Noontide Vision
By Andrew SprungLast week, I took the invitation proffered by various media and viewed John F. Kennedy's inaugural address to mark its 50th birthday.Have I ever viewed or read the speech in its...
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Welcome to the New Team: Eberlein, Holmes, Spinney, and Sprung
We're nearing the end of the first week's shift of guest bloggers. Not rushing them off the stage: I believe that they may have a few entries still to come today.I couldn't be more grateful to this...
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Can We Get There From Here?
by Bruce J. Holmes My thoughts in a previous blog ("Sputnik Moments") opened with the question on the usefulness and need for the president's claim that this is our generation's such Sputnik moment,...
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Another Kind of American History in Chongqing, 2: Evolution
by Xujun Eberlein(First a note about yesterday's post: a reader wrote to call my attention to "David Herlihy's 2010 book The Lost Cyclist, which tells the story of Frank Lenz, the first American to...
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JFK's Bridge to the 21st Century
by Andrew SprungIn a prior post, I recounted that in a recent reading of JFK's inaugural address I was struck by the sense of beleaguered peril that infused the new president's world view. I further...
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Futurist Shock
by Andrew SprungIt's an uncertain world, and those who prognosticate on global trends cannot be blamed for tacking back and forth a bit. Indeed, they would be remiss not to.Needing especially to be...
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Another Kind of American History in Chongqing, 3: Puzzle
by Xujun Eberlein(Continued from 1:Prologue and 2:Evolution)For the two years following 9-11, I struggled with a Hamletian question, "To quit, or not to quit?" I eventually chose the former, bowed out...
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Madison's Nightmare: How Much Should We Spend for National Insecurity?
By Chuck Spinney On 4 August 1822, James Madison wrote a letter to W.T. Barry about the importance of popular education and, by inference, the importance of the relationship of the First Amendment to...
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By Jingo, Obama Was Not Fear-Mongering in the SOTU
by Andrew Sprung In my last post, I celebrated the contrast between the potentially world-ending U.S.--Soviet rivalry that JFK evoked in his inaugural address and more sublimated economic competition...
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NASA's Iconic Red Vortex Photo: 'The Rest of the Story'
by Bruce J. Holmes Since the early 1980s, I have had questions about an iconic picture depicting a dramatic, crimson wake vortex. This picture, with which my former NASA colleagues and I have a deep...
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