The Great Conjunction

The Great Conjunction

Here are a few photos and videos of the Great Conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn in December of 2020. Jupiter & Saturn and our Moon over North Dallas on December 16, 2020. iPhone video from Odyssey 1 13.1″ Dobsonian telescope on December 17, 2020...
Aaron Swartz, RIP

Aaron Swartz, RIP

Aaron dead. World wanderers, we have lost a wise elder. Hackers for right, we are one down. Parents all, we have lost a child. Let us weep. — Tim Berners-Lee (@timberners_lee) January 12, 2013 Was Aaron’s death a desperate act? Or was it a bold...
Visions of Pendulums

Visions of Pendulums

On August 4, 2005 in the breathtaking Tuscan Hall of his 21-acre campus, Roy H. Williams, the Wizard of Ads, introduced the thesis of Generational Cycles. According to this thesis, every 40 years our civilization oscillates between two fundamental ways of being; one...