Things are so rarely what they seem these days. Maybe it has been that way for ever… Look at this story about the “real” reason that America is in Afghanistan and wonder… The US military is in Afghanistan for two reasons. First to restore and control the world’s largest supply of opium for the world [...]

According to Secrecy News there is a growing number of patents that are being deemed strategic to national security and therefore being classed as secret. Under the Invention Secrecy Act of 1951, U.S. government agencies may restrict the disclosure of a patent application whenever its publication is deemed “detrimental to the national security.”  In Fiscal [...]

When I was four years old, my family constructed a house. I asked my father how the builders knew what went where. And he told me about the plans and showed me the blueprints. I was enthralled, here was a method to build something. Draw up a master plan, order the lumber, roofing iron, and [...]