The Pursuit of Happiness Enshrined in our history is the universal opportunity for “the pursuit of happiness.” Yet how can you be happy when your brain is fully aware, your body is paralyzed and the only way to communicate is to blink your eyes? Locked in syndrome has all the accouterments of nightmare, much of […]
Use the news – don’t be used by it (4/22/11)
Fascination or Entertainment? You can’t stop watching. Night and day your head and eyes turn to the screen. The images flow like waking dreams. Walls of water lift up Japanese houses and schools like paper toys. Hundreds of thousands in Tahrir Square shout the end of dictatorship, chanting, singing, then cleaning the street refuse of […]
A simple way to save 10,000 lives (each year – 4/15/11)
Driving The National Safety Council estimates that 28% of car crashes, about 1.6 million a year, are due to drivers using cell phones to talk or text. There are about 34,000 deaths while driving each year. Please do the math. Some say the numbers are lower, but you’re still talking perhaps 10,000 deaths – […]
Let your pilot sleep (4/4/11)
Trouble in the Air Holes blow through the tops of airplanes. Cracks appear in the fuselages. Air traffic controllers nod off while the planes are flying – at the main airport for Congress. It’s not been a good time for air travel. And there’s more trouble – pilots involuntarily are falling asleep in the air. […]
When your air traffic controller falls asleep (3/30/11)
Sleep and Security Pilots fall asleep flying. Drivers fall asleep driving. Nuclear plant operators fall asleep manipulating spent fuel rods. Air traffic controllers fall asleep while planes keep flying… Last week the air traffic controller for Ronald Reagen, formerly National Airport, fell asleep. He was controlling traffic at the Washington D.C. airport that is a […]