In the middle of the night on March 24, 1944, 76 Allied airmen crawled on their bellies through a 300-foot long tunnel to escape from the Nazi POW Camp, Stalag Luft III (see photo below). They did it by constructing three tunnels the airmen named “Tom,” “Dick,” and “Harry,” using only tools that they could … Read more
Mixed in amongst the rock, R&B, blues, and folk songs that comprise my music collection is a CD that contains a 20-minute recording made at a lake at the Khlong Saeng Wildlife Sanctuary. In 2004 I visited this Sanctuary, which is located in a remote area on the southern peninsula of Thailand. There are no … Read more
My sister emailed this to me today and it is well worth repeating: Two friends were walking through the desert. During the journey, they had an argument and one friend slapped the other one in the face. The one who got slapped was hurt, but without saying anything, wrote in the sand: “Today my best … Read more
No longer the stuff of science fiction, researchers at the University of California at Berkeley and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have successfully rendered three dimensional objects invisible. How does it work? Think about a smooth rock in a river. The water parts when it encounters the rock, flows around it, and then closes up … Read more
How safe are cruises, really? The following are e a few reasons why I don’t take oceangoing cruises: I suffer horribly from seasickness I think I would feel trapped (I’d rather be out backpacking on some mountain or jungle trail) I would hate having to be back to the ship at a certain time, because … Read more
