by david allan van nostrand | Mar 30, 2026 | Americana, Human Behavior, The Wayback Machine
Skylab was America’s first space station. On July 11, 1979, it ran out of gas (figuratively) and gravity took over. As it re-entered Earth’s atmosphere, the 99-foot-long Skylab disintegrated, spewing 154,000 pounds of soon-to-be flotsam over most of the Indian Ocean....
by david allan van nostrand | Mar 23, 2026 | AISA, Artificial Intelligence, Marketing, The Wayback Machine, The world around us
Marshes are zones of transition between the land on one side and the water on the other, be it ocean, lake, pond, river, or creek. Marshes are flat, low-lying, treeless* land covered mostly by fresh or salt water or a mix of the two. Whatever land is there is always...
by david allan van nostrand | Mar 16, 2026 | Americana, Human Behavior, The Wayback Machine
A cholera epidemic reached Europe after starting in India and spreading to Asia by land and sea routes. Cholera is an infectious disease caused by bacteria that thrive on rotting food and drinking water contaminated by human waste. Infection occurs mostly in the small...
by david allan van nostrand | Mar 9, 2026 | Behind the curtain, Human Behavior, Organizational Behavior, The world around us
Until he was killed when his single-seat lightweight aircraft crashed, Joseph Overton was a Fellow at The Mackinac Center for Public Policy. A policy analyst, he described the range of topics acceptable to mainstream thinking as the window of discourse. Overton...
by david allan van nostrand | Mar 2, 2026 | Items in the News, The Wayback Machine, The world around us
A Closer Look at Female Pilots During Women’s Aviation Week Women of Aviation Worldwide Week is upon us, and the only female pilot I know is the famous one, Amelia Earhart. She was aviation’s darling until she disappeared along with her navigator and was...
