'Lies' tagged posts

Lethal After All These Years

LightGramsNovember 9, 2023Volume 27, Number 30 Life was significantly disrupted a few weeks ago in Athens, Greece. Work was proceeding on a major construction project when a 500-pound bomb from World War 2 was unearthed. Everything came to a stop as experts were called in. For the next two days people were instructed to not…

When The Light Is Dark

LightGramsDecember 1, 2022Volume 26, Number 36 Merriam-Webster, known for their publication of dictionaries of the English language, announced earlier this week their “Word of the Year for 2022”. The word “gaslighting” surprised even the editors, who said that there was no single story in the news that caused interest in the word to peak. The…

“Concealed Contraband”

LightGramsApril 21, 2021Volume 25, Number 15 A traveler passing through security at Houston’s William P. Hobby Airport was pulled aside. His luggage didn’t raise a red flag, but his breakfast burrito did. Once the alert was issued the burrito was scanned by Xray, and a small package with crystal meth was discovered inside. Needless the…

Sniffing Out Fake News

LightGrams September 7, 2017 Volume 21, Number 30 A story carried by the Associated Press on August 31, 2017 notes that two professors at Penn State University have been awarded $300,000 in grants from the National Science Foundation.  The grants will help fund a project in which the professors hope to develop programs that “will…