Stephen Kastner

“It is often hard to be a person on the planet Earth. It can be scary, overwhelming, fraught with obstacles, and most of all, inescapably lonely.” – The Rino and the Buddha “Are You Out There” Words and music by Dar Williams Perhaps I am a miscreation No one knows the truth there is no [...]

A recent study by the New America Foundation “places the United States at the top of the list of the world’s leading arms-selling nations in 2007, accounting for more than 45 percent of all global weapons transfers.” The Bush administration “signed arms sales agreements…worth more than $32 billion last year, including with one or more [...]

It’s about 4 pm and we are expecting to get more than a foot of snow in the next 24 hours – a perfect time to start a project on my life’s work.

Ever wonder why it is that humans have only 46 sets of chromosomes while ALL other primates have 48? It seems that we have two sets of chromosome pairs that are fused together. I wonder how that happened? It doesn’t seem to fit the Darwinian model of evolution. The nine brightest stars of the Pleiades [...]