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  • First Designed and Built Living Cell

    George Rebane By now you’ve probably heard that Man has been able to mess with some snippets of DNA and fabricate a new double helix that when inserted into an ‘empty’ (of nucleus) cell body, the thing became a living and self-replicating cell.  While not the real deal of starting from scratch with a bunch…

  • My Meg Whitman Interview

    Robert Patton [Robert Patton is a large-scale data systems developer and program manager living in southern California.  Robert is also a long time friend, colleague, and entrepreneur.  His email earlier today mentioned a serendipitous and interesting conversation he had with Meg Whitman, Republican candidate for governor and former CEO of eBay.  Whitman was doing random…

  • Other Than Mexican

    George Rebane OTM, that is the classification given to the hundreds (thousands?) of illegal aliens coming across our southern border who originate from countries beyond Mexico.  The biggest threat to us is the number of Muslims that make up the OTM classification.  Most of them come to and through Mexico by a very circuitous route…

  • The War Ends in Liederberg

    George Rebane [This is another in a continuing series of autobiographical sketches that I have been asked to write by friends and family.  I share it with you, my readers, in the hope that these little vignettes (see 'My Story' category) of history and the American immigrant experience are of interest.  But most of all, I…

  • Culture Counts

    George Rebane  [The following piece was submitted as my monthly column in The Union.  It appears today 15 May 2010 in the newspaper's print and online editions (here).  I also do a bi-weekly radio commentary on KVMR FM 89.5.] We just returned from a trip to the eastern Mediterranean during which we had a chance to see…

  • Dumbell Economics

    George Rebane “Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other.”  Labor organizer Oscar Ameringer quoted in the London Independent.  What he really meant to say is Politics is the con game of buying votes from the poor with…

  • Arrivederci Roma

    George Rebane   We have visited three continents on this trip and have learned a lot.   One of our stops was Athens which we were able to just barely get in and out of between riots.  As I write, the Dow has taken a 900 point dip and bounced on worries that the Greek disease…

  • Rome in two sturdy shoes (and days)

    George Rebane Our friends Tony and Paula arrived from Hong Kong in the middle of the night and were all set to go on the following morning.  We requested the hotel to set up a registered guide for us, and after a delightful and exhausting day, we all agreed that this is the way to…

  • Wednesday? – it must be Rome

    George Rebane Arrived this morning in Rome two hours late because of the Icelandic ash cloud.  Europe’s skies are finally open, and all the airplanes are now repositioning so that airports are chaotic.  We’ve slept about four hours in the last thirty-six, and this powerful body is not as powerful as it used to be. …

  • aka the ‘Terror Cruise’

    George Rebane Ash cloud permitting, we are on our way to Italy and the eastern Med while things are only at a low boil in places like Athens and Cairo.  I have no idea how much connectivity will be available on the ship.  To our surprise, we found out that they built the damn thing…

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