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Exploration – My Theory of a Possible Future
Where can we go now? Besides the obvious exploration to space, where is there to go? I have long felt that I was born in the wrong era! I love…
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Off the Charts – A Flight-Sim Story
Image is property of Microsoft It was the late 90s and I was preparing to boot up my trusty 486 for a flight to the unknown. The Boeing 737 was…
Thinking Beyond Capabilties
Have you ever wondered about the space above your head? I'm only talking about the blue bit that you see in the day, you know, the area that often has…
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Role Models: Why We Need Them
I remember the time when there was a key focus on teaching the young about industry. In the UK, there were many role-models that showed us the way to STEAM…
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Serious Thinking for an Economic Model
Though the future shows little more than a sea of services, rather than the skilled workmanship of hands on people, we know that the STEM arena is going to play…
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Build? Build What?
What do we build? Everything? Just houses? What about knowledge? If you read the 'About' pages on my site, you will notice that most of my interests, for there is…
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The Technology Slump
After a hiatus from writing my STEM blog, I decided to write my thoughts from last week. I was thinking about the world that we live in, what we have…
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Is Howard Wolowitz a Good Engineer?
The Big Bang Theory has been around for some years now, making more than ten seasons has given the general public a lot to contemplate. Each of the characters are unique…
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The Wider-Glider
I have been looking at how we build our larger aircrafts. Not a lot has changed, technology and materials are what is showing the overall alterations in their construction. The…