Creating A Tsunami

This relatively simple idea comes from Termination Shock, a fiction book by futurist Neal Stephenson. And it is mostly brilliant (and scary). Drop a shipping container, full of high explosives to the ocean floor. Detonate it and high waves spread … Continue reading

Jamal Khashoggi

Jamal Khashoggi, the Saudi dissident who was brutally killed at the Saudi embassy, was probably a good guy. I’m not disputing that at all. His family, and their connections, were quite different. I’m guessing that enabled him to access the … Continue reading