The Vegetarian Vampire

Iron is the most important metal in the cosmos. Hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen are not metals. Iron-56 is the only completely non-radioactive element in the cosmos. (Nickel-56 is the exception to the rule, but it's too sparse to make a difference.) Iron-56 is the MID-POINT betwee... Read More

Someone Who Has Done It

Gore Vidal (Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia, 2004) wrote ... "We hate this system that we are trapped in, but we don’t know who has trapped us or how. We don’t even know what our cage looks like because we have never seen it from the outside." <> Paul Beekm... Read More

My Toe Stood Up

I asked Adano Ley (Swami Nitty-Gritty) a question at the Texas Institute of Reflex Sciences. "When I clench my right foot, my middle toe stays up. It won't stay down with the rest of them." "Take off your shoes and socks and come to the front of the class," he said. I did, and Adano told me... Read More