His prediction in 1956 that U.S. oil production would peak in about 1970 and decline thereafter was scoffed at then but his analysis has since proved to be remarkably accurate. Less well known were Hubbert's studies since 1926 on the rate of industrial growth and of mineral and energy resources and ...

When last we saw our heroine, she'd stumbled into spoiler territory. You've been warned. Okay. So. Ellen Park, daughter of the scientist and physician James Park, has just found her way out of the Vault she's spent her entire life in up until now. She's made it to the open air and is standing on a r...

I cannot begin to respond to the deluge of assurances of prayer and concern about my health. Please be assured that I am grateful and count mightily on being remembered by you before the Throne of Grace. Or, as Catholics are wont to say, on your storming the gates of heaven. The nature of the cancer...

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...

Read through the official European reactions to Israel’s ground offensive into Gaza: Zapatero, the Vatican, the Italian government — all are pressuring Israel for a ceasefire. The surprise is Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende, who states that it would be pointless to condemn Israel witho...

Why Another Israeli - Palestinian War.  The Gaza War in which Israel has now engaged ground forces inside Gaza began after Hamas ended on Dec. 19 a six-month ceasefire (during which it fired fewer rockets than before the truce, but did not, as the term implies cease firing entirely) by firing ...

I'm not sure my memoirs should say exactly what I was doing when they lit up the Mediterranean. Doing it doggy style with a girl called Marianne will be changed to something a little more romantic. Maybe. There is something darkly poetic and spectacular about reaching orgasm just as a nuclear bomb g...

A wiseman sketches his vision for the coming year. This essay was originally posted on December 28th, 2008. Forecast for 2009 James Howard Kunstler There are two realities "out there" now competing for verification among those who think about national affairs and make things happen. The dominant one...

More Edgey stuff. "Geoengineering" technologies for counteracting some aspects of anthropogenic climate change — such as putting long-lived aerosols into the stratosphere, as volcanoes do, or changing the lifetimes and reflective properties of clouds — have to date been shunned by the majority of ...

The Museum of Science and Industry was crowded on January 2nd. The day after the New Year fell on a Friday, so any adult with a choice had taken the day off, plus the schools were still out on holiday break. But the museum exhibits are dispersed widely enough that the mob wasn’t claustrophobic, an...