The automotive world is abuzz over the latest entry into the hybrid auto market, the Mercedes Benz High-Bred. Available this fall in Sedan, Sportster and SUV version, the High-Bred reportedly gets over 75 miles per gallon of petrol on the highway. The move is seen as a response to the runaway success of the Toyota Prius. "Obviously, [...]...

As the Dowbrigade has been noting for some time now, it is clear that the Federal Office of Management and Budget has been cooking the nation's books for years. We noted almost four years ago that prices at the pumps, checkout counters, showrooms and e-Sites have been going up a lot faster than the officially [...]...

Yesterday the Dowbrigade and his son and cameraman Gabriel joined half a million other Boston sports fans to celebrate the latest World Championship by a local sports team. Yawn. Then we stopped for Brazilian Bar-B-Q on the way home. Ho hum. How jaded we have become, here in the Hub! Somehow life seems empty if one [...]...

The call came in on Sunday morning, interrupting the time honored ritual of newspapers, coffee and pastries in bed. The unfamiliar female voice asked in halting, heavily accented English, "Is you Michol?" It turned out to be a friend of a distant cousin of Norma Yvonne, who claimed she knew us when we lived [...]...

Using data from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft and two telescopes on or near Earth, an international team of scientists has found that one of the solar system's largest and newest storms – Jupiter's Little Red Spot – has some of the highest wind speeds ever detected on any planet. Jupiter's "LRS" is an anticyclone, a storm [...]...