Quote of the Week
“Human beings can do amazing things when they know their reasons ‘why’.”—Joseph McClendon III
Everything You Wanted to Know About Coffee
Sometimes you just come across an item and have to say, “OK, this is cool! That’s how I felt when I stumbled across The Story of Coffee presented by Google Arts & Culture. Created as a partnership between the Erasmus Huis in Jakarta and the Hortus Botanicus in Amsterdam, this interactive online exhibit is amazing. …
Open for Business
About two weeks ago, astronomers welcomed a new tool into their arsenal for studying the cosmos: the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile. The observatory houses the world’s largest digital camera, which photographs the sky every 40 seconds. According to the observatory’s website, the camera is the size of an SUV and captures images at …
Happy Birthday, America
On this 249th birthday of the United States of America, I choose to celebrate what makes this country special and unique. I can think of no better way to remember those qualities than by publishing the words to ‘America the Beautiful.’ O beautiful for spacious skies,For amber waves of grain,For purple mountain majestiesAbove the fruited …
What’s Old Is New Again
The date was February 19, 1990. I was, um, significantly younger. That is the date the world was introduced to the brainchild of two brothers: Thomas and John Knoll. The world would never be the same. That was the date Photoshop 1.0 was released for the Macintosh computer. In recent years—particularly before the developments in …
Quote of the Week
“If we assume we’ve arrived, we stop searching, we stop developing.”—Jocelyn Bell Burnell
Biohacking
For those of you unfamiliar with the term, biohacking has been defined by Dictionary.com as “strategic biological experimentation, especially upon oneself, using technology, drugs, hormones, diet, etc., with the goal of enhancing or augmenting performance, health, mood, or the like.” Author Tim Ferriss shared his thoughts on biohacking on an episode of the Money Rehab …
The Science of Tickling
Think back to your youth. If you had siblings, I would bet that you’ve experienced a tickle war at some point in your life. Being tickled is something that everyone has experienced at least once in their life. So why does science know so little about it? Charles Darwin and Socrates pondered the physical reaction …
Quote of the Week
“You can’t separate peace from freedom, because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.”—Malcolm X