The Experiment that Changed Everything
For 4,000 years we have been fading into the background of existence. There was a time we thought our local world to be so privileged as we boasted ourselves the center of the universe. But soon the earth was round, we revolved around the Sun and not the other way around, [...]
Let’s Build a Warpdrive
If you have read our recent article, or any like it, then you already know about the incredible discovery of Einstein's predicted gravitational waves. And so, it is time for us to "nerd out" imagining what new technologies could arise from the discovery. It is time for us to build a Warp Drive. Yes, [...]
What are Gravitational Waves and why do I care?
(Image: one of two LIGO research facilities that detected gravitational waves, Washington State) By now you most likely have heard the news about the discovery of gravitational waves and that it is being lauded as the biggest discovery of the last century. So what is a gravitational wave? Image depicts warping [...]
The Semmelweis Reflex (famous only in death)
Revolutionaries play on a different timeline. They see further and their ideas live longer. Pushing past ridicule and ritual they open up new worlds so that when they die, instead of being forgotten, they are immortalized. Names like: Van Gogh, Galileo, Dickinson, Tesla, and Edgar Allen Poe come to mind. But what all these [...]
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My Blind Faith
"Oh I'm a Christian, so I don't believe in that" is no longer a valid excuse for ignoring concrete scientific facts. And so it is time for all Christians (including myself) to wake up into the modern scientific age and ask some tough questions about our beliefs or be left at [...]
Why Medical Devices are not for Kids but should be
There is a scary fact about our medical system. It is not equipped to serve children; at least not unilaterally and with the latest technology. Barring specialized childrens' hospitals (like the one seen in the above video) that are few and far between, most hospitals are specifically geared to deal [...]
Mysteries: The Voynich Manuscript
Also known as "the book that cant be read," the Voynich Manuscript is by far the creepiest ancient book ever discovered. Within the manuscript are images of ominous plants, astronomical diagrams and scenes of communal bathing in a dense green liquid. And if that is not mysterious enough, the diagrams [...]
The Language that Shapes Us
It is so easy to let language shape you, much harder to shape language around yourself. The great communicators never concede to the boundaries of language. Yes, language can set you free but it can also hold you in because language has rules...a few of which I aim to break; [...]
What is the largest animal ever to have lived?
The Blue Whale, so big you could swim through its veins.
When did Albert Einstein have his epiphany for the General Theory of Relativity?
While having a dream about electrocuting cows.
What is the most common scientific explanation for the uniqueness of our universe?
The Everett Many Worlds Theory: an idea that we live in only one of a multitude or infinity of parallel universes.
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