Entries from September 2009 ↓

Time travel always sounds quite an exciting prospect for everyone especially for scientists. If they could step into a TARDIS, they could go and observe or, if they wanted to risk prompting changes, they could ask the people involved what they were thinking. This is where all the excitement comes because the risk of changing the past and creating paradoxes is entertaining, even if only for those interested in science fiction. Since there is no practical system for time travel, the researchers step forward with what they can dig up from old records. Now everyone gets into the game of interpreting the evidence to meet their expectations. When it comes to the history of sex, the Continue reading →

It is all too easy to run your life on autopilot. You managed to get up into the air on your own as you came into adulthood. You punched in the destination code and then clicked the switch. Life was up above the clouds, running swift and true across the skies. Decisions were made by routine. Nothing changed because the machine was in charge and it was steering you to your destination. Then a message came to you as the pilot. Fuel is running expectedly low. You will have to land except, when you look below, the clouds have darkened into storm and you are over the sea. If your fuel runs out you will crash and be lost. In a sudden panic, you ask yourself how this could happen. You think about it some more and the answer becomes clear. Every year, you renewed your obligations without looking at what they were costing. If the prices went up, you paid without giving it a second thought. Life was good. Credit was readily available. There was no need to worry. Now the recession is here, there is worry everywhere. You have to look at your obligations again to see what savings can be made.

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