What We’ve Got
We love black holes, perhaps the most mind-boggling thing in the universe.
We love the mysteries of the deep ocean, many of them still undiscovered.
We love the rich history of past empires and gone dynasties.
We love extraordinary figures such as Gandhi and Marie Curie, Helen Keller and Steve Jobs, Charlie Chaplin and Marcus Aurelius.
We love heroic human endeavors such as eradicating smallpox, the moon landing (and soon, the Mars landing?)
We are fascinated by Aristotle’s dramatic theory, as well as Pixar’s rules of storytelling. By the invention of the wheel, as well as the invention of the World Wide Web. By Picasso’s defiance of realism, as well as Banksy’s defiance of public spaces. Past medical advancements, such as doctors washing their hands (!), as well as recent breakthroughs in curing cancer.
We want to know everything about the fashion style of samurai armor and the dynamics of single-stage rockets; the canon of the Star Wars mythology and the versatility of the Raspberry Pi board; the ongoing search for extraterrestrial intelligence and the reason corn pops when heated.
In Mind Blown, we have built a home for all of these, and you’re welcome to drop by anytime. It’s your home too.
(And if you can’t find what you love — let us know. We’ll make sure to collect it as well.)
We have things like Health Heroes, about the men and women who saved all our lives (for example, did you know that Edward Jenner saved more people than anyone else in history?!); We have Aviators, about those who took us to the sky, and even outer space (have you ever heard of the human computers — the women of NASA whose calculations would chart the course of many ground-breaking space missions?); We have Epic Professions, including job of the future (astrobiologist and organ designer, to name a couple), jobs that don’t exist anymore (like hunter-gatherer and philosopher king), as well as weird careers (such as professional bridesmaid and vertical farmer) and important occupations (conservationist, galactic protection officer, and first responder, among many many others).
We collected Dinosaurs (including the smallest, the largest and the fiercest), Cool Cats (including Cheshire, Grumpy and Garfield) and Sea Creatures (from the terrible, yet fictional, kraken, to the cutest, yet rarest, dumbo octopus).
We picked up the most curious numbers (Did you know that the square root of 2 was a forbidden number who got its discoverer murdered?! Did you know that the largest known number — Rayo’s number — was found during a daunting mathematicians’ duel?) and found many wonderful words (including the longest English word — 45 letters, words you can read backwards and upside down, words that sound like what they name, nonsense words and words that were invented by famous authors).
We looked for quirky things like Mouths (Did you know that smiling makes you happy? It’s not just that being happy makes you smile) and fun things like Animated Characters (Do you know what animal was the first ever animated character? Head on to Mind Blown to find out). We looked for meaningful things like the best quotes about success and failure (for example, Edison said “many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”) We looked for unsolved mysteries and role models, for the best in history and culture and science and art.
And we put it all into Mind Blown. Come have a look.
