Black Hole Derivation
I was fiddling around with a particle accelerating to the speed of light in a gravitational field. I came up with r
Author: Robert Hamill
Magazines and Anthologies with Short Stories
I noticed the other day when I posted a snapshot of 'Buffalo Girls' that it was the first novel I'd read in 4 months. After I finished scolding myself, I recalled that I'd taken a…
Gore-Tex Invention
Another case where science moved by fits and starts rather than reasoned logic.
Obama The Good, the Bad, and the Uglies
The ugly came out in extreme supporters and opponents. Each believed they had the one true truth and the other side is evil incarnate. Compromise is a betrayal of their truth (rather than a recognition…
Minimum Wage Boosts GDP
More of the worker’s income goes into economic activity, increasing GDP while the owners build their savings.
Festival at Thurmont
The bright streamers seemed pennants of aristocratic families and fair beauties. Local peasants hawked their handiworks, made in the dim light of the fireside, after long hours of hard labor on their master's domain. The…
Two Big Questions
1. If you believe in religion, how do you logically reject other supernatural interventions? 2. If you believe in science, how do explain free will?
Different Ways of Weighing the Same Short Story
What counts more to you - style or substance? Can a woman write a male lead as credibly as she writes a female lead? Can a man - vice versa?
Aggregate Effects of the Top 1% Earners
With 93% of income growth being taken by the Top 1%, the salaries of workers and lower level managers are barely growing, so the nation’s GDP barely grows.
Class Warfare and Status Quo
If unrest and riots are quelled without adjustments in societal and economic reality, they will reoccur—like earthquakes which always has us wondering, "Is this the big one?"