Bruce Henderson is a former Marine who focuses custom data mining and visualization technologies on the economy and other disasters.
I think studying earth’s climate is a worthy endeavor if it is done using scientific methods and an open mind. But sadly the fashion these days involves directing effort to “save the planet” (like we could ever destroy something as big as a planet) which is sucking up millions of hours of research time and […]
Last night marked the blessed end to what has been a grating an annoying primary season for the US Presidential election. What was amusing to me was how little the cable news rooms were actually covering the two states having primaries, and how much of the coverage was focused on starting to handicap the “Obama […]
In March of 1989, a pair of chemists showed a device that they claimed was able to fuse hydrogen into helium at room temperature using what appeared to be chemical processes. At first this rocked the world of high energy physics, who have been chasing the dream of producing controlled fusion for decades. Workable fusion […]
Some folks may have noticed that we have yet to update our trend animator with banking data for the first quarter of 2008. It’s not because we don’t want to, it’s because the FDIC has yet to release their data. Yes, that’s right – one of the more interesting quarters of the US banking industry […]
Over the long US holiday weekend, the latest Mars probe known as “Phoenix” landed near the Martian north pole. As wonderful as it is when we can actually get some of our gear on Mars to work correctly, it was even more fun that we were able to snap a picture of it taking place. […]
Many folks were very keen on the animated charts we created for the FDIC data on the looming banking problems. The charts are quite similar to the groundbanking work of gapminder.org, which was purchased by Google some time ago, with the promise that their wonderful charting tools would be available “soon”. Since then, we have […]
A quick check of space weather shows us that once again the face of the sun is blank – no sunspots. In the past few weeks we have had a few tiny sunspots show up that are part of the last sunspot cycle, but it seems we are still waiting for cycle 24 (the new […]
The US Navy and the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization have compiled a nice collection of video from this past winter’s shoot down of a broken NRO satellite known as USA 193. It includes footage aboard USS Lake Erie (the cruiser who took the shot) as well as cameras that show the moment of impact with […]
Most people think of stars as constant entities in the sky, seldom changing. In reality the are huge elemental and quantum machines that form, burn their fuel and die. Most die by sputtering out, but large ones sometimes explode in Nova or Supernova bursts. Mankind has witnessed stars exploding in the night sky, but images […]
There are mixed reports in the press about the state of the US economy. While the majority of the national media seems to be rooting for a good economic downturn (perhaps to spice up the election cycle this fall) The data from the government is also somewhat conflicted, perhaps because the powers that be would […]