What are those floaty things in your eye?
Sometimes, against a uniform, bright background such as a clear sky or a blank computer screen, you might see things floating across your field of vision. What are these moving…
Dismemberment Plan: Lifehand 2 Develops Sensational Prosthetic
Remember at the end of “The Empire Strikes Back” when Darth Vader lops off Luke Skywalker’s hand? Just before the credits roll we see Luke in a medical bay with…
8 People Who Received Their PhDs Before Age 20
One of the most important lessons I learned in graduate school was that having a PhD does not make someone a genius. More than anything it’s indicative of discipline and…
You Are A Gold Mine!
When you hear the word “pretentious”, the mind usually pictures people who are haughty and condescending, who think of themselves as being above everyone else. However, the word “pretense” has…
Finding Balance Between The Digital and Natural Worlds
Lately, I’ve caught myself feeling an urgency to keep up with the myriad of new technologies, social networks, programming languages and website innovations that continually flood the digital market-o-sphere. I’ve…
Maker Movement Encourages Next Level Genius
DIY, that means do it yourself. I don’t sit around waitin’ for someone’s help. I don’t sit back and say “Good enough.” I keep on striving, reinventing, keepin’ it off…
The map as history: Animated maps
The entire history of the World from the rise of civilisation to the present day History of the Romans: Every Year Colonization of Africa – summary from mid-15th century to…
The Weird Science of Tycho Brahe
Comedian Dan Telfer covers the gamut of Brahe’s eccentricities: an enslaved psychic jester named Jepp, a pet elk that got drunk and died falling down a set of stairs, and…
The Silent Lucidity of Keith Hearne’s Dream Machine
Keith Hearne’s first lucid dream sounds a bit like the cover to an erotic romance novel. He imagined a beautiful woman with him on a beach and “she came straight…
Death Metal from Space
Let’s hope the words, “commence the orbital bombardment” don’t enter our vernacular in the near future. Imagine a bundle of metal telephone poles dropped from Earth’s orbit onto a target….
Creative Geniuses Know Mental Illness Best
American neuroscientist and neuropsychiatrist Nancy Andreasen wrote a piece “Secrets of the Creative Brain.” It’s a Andreasen recollects her years of research on the connections between mental illness and creativity….
Albert Einstein, the Big Bang and How We Know What We Know
Consider that before Tycho Brahe humanity collectively thought the universe was immutable, with planetary bodies forever stuck in the same place like cardboard cutouts in the sky. After Brahe, we…