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Around 10 AM on Sunday, Nov. 1, tech entrepreneur Adam Robinson, his wife Helen, their two small children, their nanny, and two friends of the family boarded a Learjet 60 aircraft at Austin's Bergstrom International Airport for a vacation trip to the Bahamas. The charter jet's captain and pilot was 55-year-old Jeff Gregory, and his co-pi...
The Spanish high-speed rail network is second only to China's in its size and number of passengers carried per year. From its opening in 1992 until this year, there were no fatal accidents on the high-speed trains, which travel at speeds up to 160 MPH (250 KPH) across the countryside. But the Madrid-Seville line, which goes south of the...
About a year ago, LinkedIn job offers of a new type began showing up in my inbox. I am not personally on the job market—in fact, I went to half-time at my current teaching job over a year ago anticipating a possible future retirement—but LinkedIn didn't know that. What it did know was that I had an engineering and physics ...
In a report completed last May but released only last week, the U. S. Army's investigation into the deadly January 2025 crash between a U. S. Army Black Hawk helicopter and American Airlines flight 5342 shows that numerous critical failures in hardware and procedures led to the crash. This report complements the already-completed Nationa...
Every field needs a foundational philosophy, and I've never found a better one for ethics than St. Thomas Aquinas's fundamental principle of moral philosophy. While I can't cite chapter and verse for an exact quote, it goes something like this: "The good ought to be done and evil avoided."