Cycles of Change

Engineering practical systems and exploring the physical world.

A historical error is currently being repeated on a civilizational scale. In 1960, Pope John XXIII chose to bury a terrifying prophecy to protect the faithful from fear. He believed that silence would preserve hope. Instead, it bred forty years of suspicion. Today, secular governments in London, [...]
In August 1959, a sealed envelope sat on the desk of Pope John XXIII at the papal summer residence of Castel Gandolfo. The world waited for its contents. The writer, Sister Lucia dos Santos, the last surviving seer of Fatima, had explicitly stated that the message inside could be opened in 1960, [...]
On January 4, 2012, a simple image appeared on the message board 4chan. The stark white text on a black background offered a direct challenge. It stated that hidden within the image was a message, and its author was looking for highly intelligent individuals. This singular post launched what has [...]
On the morning of August 12, 2001, a pilot flying over Milk Hill in Wiltshire, England discovered something that should not exist. Stretching 780 feet across sloping farmland lay a formation of 409 perfect circles, woven together in three interlocking spirals. The pattern was a triskelion, an [...]
In the early 1990s, two men stood on opposite sides of American culture, watching the same storm gather on the horizon. Neither knew the other was keeping watch. Both saw time itself beginning to run faster. Art Bell sat in his Nevada radio studio each night, fielding calls from across the [...]
The United States owes more than 36 trillion dollars. This debt grows by about one trillion dollars every hundred days. The government pays over 900 billion dollars each year just on interest. That is more than the country spends on defense. This affects every family. But most people do not know [...]