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Ever woken up from a dream and realized that ticking time-bomb about to explode was really just your alarm clock screaming at you from your nightstand? Last night I had a dream about an immortal fly that kept buzzing around my face without remorse. It…
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In keeping with my promise to provide a more detailed review of Sarah Gerdes’ latest book (from my last post), I’d like to share more than just my own personal opinions about Chambers and actually, hopefully, foreshadow what you can expect from the book. First,…
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An unexpected surprise found its way onto my Kindle recently- a book titled Chambers, by Sarah Gerdes. To be honest, I wasn’t all that sure what I was getting into as I navigated to the first chapter, so I decided to do the ‘sneak-peek test’. …
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Some dude named J. Craig Venter (one of those Human Genome Project types) has spent the last 15 years or so playing Dexter’s lab, and has actually managed quite the feat.
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The 2010 debut of the movie Tron, directed by Joseph Kosinski is brilliant, captivating, and nearly-imperfect- or at the very least, ‘as good as it gets.’ As for popular movie reviews; well, I wouldn’t be surprised if this flick is rated as being below average…
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Now your cardiovascular system’s pumping a whole bunch of hormones and what not throughout your blood stream and trickles stuff like dopamine into your brain.
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Where do we draw the line between right and wrong? Seems like just about everyone’s got their reasons for why they are right and everyone else is wrong. I just don’t get it.
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Love: What is it? Why do we feel it? How does it affect the way we think and behave? Certainly, people have been asking these questions since the beginning of Man -, regardless of when that may have been. For Plato, Aristotle, Shakespeare, Freud, and…
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“I think, therefore I am” is often referenced in Latin as ‘Cogito Ergo Sum,’ yet the saying actually appears first, in Rene Descartes Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting the Reason, and Seeking Truth in the Sciences, which in French, reads as: ‘Je pense…
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The book is about the famous psychologists story’s with an array of fascinating patients. One of them wakes up to suddenly not believe his eyes, when he thinks that his newspaper has sent him a print in the wrong language.
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About ten years ago, scientists uncovered an incredibly unique wonder of the sea. Officialy known as Thaumoctopus mimicus, the mimic octopus changes its shape and color to emulate other species found in the ocean. Since being discovered off the tropical coast of Sulawesi, the octopus has…
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Most people agree that our brains’ are capable of much more than we think, yet many of us have heard of so many alluring myths about how the brain works, it’s hard to know just which one’s are actually correct. This article examines a few fictitious- yet popular- myths...
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Occasionally, I am graced with the wonderful privilege of hearing someone say to me, “You think too much,” or even worse, “You don’t make any sense.” Although I’m usually inclined to argue the rather obvious contradiction of their making such a statement, I remind myself that for most people,...
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A device that can suck the energy out of air–no joke. Scientists at a National Meeting of the American Chemical Society say their “research could pave the way for turning electricity from the atmosphere into an alternative energy source for the future.”
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Astronomers have recently discovered a new galaxy in the deep and vast reaches of space. Matthew Lehnert of the Observatory of Paris in Meudon, France, and his astronomical team get extra credit for this assignment. They have identified the most distant galactic entity currently know to the class...
