Andy (אברהם נפתלי) Blumenthal Leadership, Technology, Life, and Faith ✡

The Wall Street Journal (1 February 2013) has an interesting book review on "The Soviet Biological Weapons Program." Altho...

So coming home yesterday, there is this lady sprawled out, sleeping on the Metro. Lots of people sleep on the train...especially afte...

So this is the nicest looking laptop I have ever seen by far--and it's made by  Alienware , a subsidiary of Dell (acquired in 2006)...

Popular Science (28 January 2013) has an interesting article on "How To Save The Electrical Grid." Power use has skyrocketed ...

LASER stands for Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation and their use in the military is advancing fast.  I am not ju...

In light of the horrible school shootings we have witnessed in Sandy Hook Elementary School, Virginia Tech, Columbine High School, and mor...

Peace comes in many shapes and sizes--peace talks, peace negotiations, peace treaties, and now even peace trucks. Reminiscent of the p...

To catch a terrorist, you have to think like a terrorist or at least be able to get behind their lies and deception. Terrorist want to...

One of the things that I love about the Intelligence Community (IC) is that they think future and they think big.  Noah Schactman in  ...

This is a cool video by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) on project Phoenix--which is a robot that can repair satellit...

I remember hearing that sometimes the best way to hide is in plain sight--just where no one would think to look. Now there is a new cl...

The Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) is looking for a place to stash some new military capabilities. In a  DARPA news ...

Innovation is not something that can be mandated to succeed like a quota system, but rather it needs to be nourished with collaboration, m...

We made it through he fiscal cliff--whew!  But the economic landscape remains a minefield.  In terms of our national debt ceiling, w...

This was beyond my belief this evening--it is a true story! As I was getting off the train, my iPhone slipped out of the OtterBox clip o...

Today, Facebook announced it's new search tool called Graph Search for locating information on people, places, interests, photos, m...

I am really excited about this new Social Media application called  Betterific . It looks a lot like Twitter but is focused on ideas ...

Here are three perspectives on how we can speed up the innovation cycle and get great new ideas to market more quickly: 1)  Coordinati...

Here are three crafty ideas for improving our cyber security that can be used to protect, prevent, and recover from attacks: 1)  Intru...

A number of years ago I had received an interesting job offer--not actually for a job I had applied to, but for "something else"...