Unveiled this morning at the Macworld Expo in San Francisco, the new 17-inch MacBook Pro is part of what Apple is calling “the world’s greenest family of notebooks.” Is it just a ploy to keep Greenpeace’s Green My Apple groupies off its back? Not completely. This actually loo...

Pay Attention to the seemingly less important Presidential Appointments. In the end Obama will be intimately involved in the details of our Foreign Policy and getting the economy started. So those appointees will be carrying out his specific will. But the picks for lower more technical positions are...

THE TRUTH ABOUT CARBON DIOXIDE Alan Caruba Okay, children, let’s all sit up straight at our desks. We are going to begin 2009 with a lesson about carbon dioxide (CO2). Why do we need to know about CO2? Because the President-elect, several of his choices for environmental and energy agencies, t...

My life, along with millions of other Americans, was influenced for the better by a blue-blood senator from Rhode Island named Claiborne Pell. I had worked at the Greensboro Summit Avenue Bi-Rite grocery store starting at the age of 14 to save up money for college. I worked hard in high school and o...

from Oprah Winfrey this week - and she tells the world - " My body still works . . . and I am grateful !!! " In spite of all abuses - anything EVERYTHING out of balance !!! And I can relate - despite lifelong health issues and the attendant financial chaos - lack of any real  h...

Yesterday, Aeneas left a link to the organization pictured. I procrastinated doing anything about it…and then a donation arrived from one of our Jewish readers who lives in another country. He often sends us something, knowing our feelings about Israel. Synchronicity and all that - I decided it wa...

Anybody who knew me back when I was in sixth grade could probably have figured out that I was a Dangerous Nutjob... or at least, someone with the potential to become one. The kind of person who would keep dangerous chemical reagents in his college dorm room, for example. Substances like concentrated...

The Edge has asked 150 of the English-speaking world’s leading thinkers and scientists… “What will change everything? What game-changing scientific ideas and developments do you expect to live to see?” A lot of the responses are from biotechnology, which is currently speeding...

We’re back with Part Deux of our interview with John Gilman, author of the newsletter A View from the Cellar (part one is here). John has offered a free issue from his backlist to any Dr. Vino reader so surf on over to his site and check it out. In this part of the Q&A, I had intended Joh...

Studying in UP was a blast. And with all the fireworks for the centennial of the University of the Philippines over, many students, incumbent and former ones, reflect on their UP life. Well, I suppose I should, too. I may have to add to this as I dig up more memories and add more points. I cherish t...