Michael James Scharen received a Bachelor’s degree in Physics from Montana State University in 1987 and a Master of Art’s degree in Physics from Kent State University in 1989. He worked several years in the fledgling field of ceramic High Temperature Superconductor materials and the development of their application for passive microwave circuit components and subsystems. Mr. Scharen is co-author of six papers -- including two of which he was first author with J. Robert Schrieffer -- Nobel Prize winning physicist for the Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer theory on superconductivity. He also worked as a manufacturing engineer developing two-way, narrow-band text pagers as well as fiber-optic components. His interests include history, science and technology, astronomy, sociology, archaeology, Austrian economics, agorism, voluntaryism, and bookbinding. Please check out his website at https://michaelsbookcorner.com. We apologize for Michael's audio issues, but we are at the mercy of technology!thefacthunter.com