Mark your calendars for April 8, 2024 around 3:00 p.m. EDT. There will be a Total Solar Eclipse crossing the United States. The path of totality (the area where the entire disk of the Su…
     In From the Vaults: American Eclipse (4-10-23), we chronicled how a group of scientists and astronomers set out to elevate America’s scientific reputation around the world in the …
     Everybody knows Eddie Van Halen invented a two hand guitar technique widely known as ‘tapping’. All one has to do is call up a video of Eddie shredding the neck of one of his ic…
     From time to time, I am asked to reveal a secret; where do ideas for these FTV articles come from? There is no simple answer but let me give it a shot: anywhere and everywhere.…
     The title of this FTV started as a mental exercise of me trying to make a ‘Top Ten’ list of bands I liked to listen to back when I was first learning to be a rock and roll drummer…
     In Part 1 of History . . ., we learned about the rise of D.C. Stephenson to the position of Grand Dragon of the Northern KKK in the early 1920s. Following the story in Timothy Eganâ…