One question that I’m asked almost everywhere I go is how the foundation decides to invest the…
Maybe you heard the Fresh Air interview with Michael Specter about gene editing:
I arrived in America on a sunny but breezy February day in 1982. I defected from my home country, Czechoslovakia, a few…
The Origin of the south paws takes us back to the past and we connect it to the present. Today about one tenth of the worlds population are left handed archeological evidences…
Titan is our solar system’s second largest moon. It is nearly one and a half times the size of our moon and is bigger than even Mercury! It is made of rock and water ice, and is shrouded by…
(GTE) General Theory of Evolution — “The theory that all the living…
Upon my graduation with my undergraduate mechanical engineering degree, I…
นักวิทยาศาสตร์กำลังทำนายการเปลี่ยนแปลงของระบบดาวคู่ (binary stars) ที่รู้จักในนาม KIC 9832227 ซึ่งมีความเป็นไปได้ว่า ดาวทั้งสองดวงจะชนกันจนทำให้เกิดระเบิดเป็นมหานวดารา (supernova)
Our lives are becoming too complex due to the exponential growth of information technology. My theory is that ordinary citizens won’t be able to understand and follow the accelerated pace of the world in the next decade causing…
We are surrounded by great mystery
The media and internet are dangerous places to be on. The world wide web is a great place to…
I haven’t checked the Top500 list in a long time, I just did it after reading this very interesting article:
Scientific literacy is more important than ever. We live in a world reimagined by science, no human endeavor shaped…
Our solar system is a beautiful and diverse place. The wonders of Earth alone are breathtaking, so imaging a plethora of other worlds with their own geography, topography, and landscape is almost impossible to comprehend. One of the most remarkable objects that spirals around the Sun is Io, a Galilean…
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It’s no news flash that corporations that make money selling products that turn out to be harmful to our health have not only always opposed government regulation but have supported biased scientific…
This is our Age of Discovery. Versus just a generation ago, humanity today contains twice as many literate brains. We are healthier. We are better educated. (There are more higher degree holders living now than ever lived prior to 1980.) We…
On a seemingly ordinary day in 1933, a woman named Aldie McKay was returning from a road trip with her husband in Inverness, Scotland. Driving through the woods, she saw a large hump coming out of a nearby lake. Mrs. McKay urged her husband to get a closer look, but when they glanced back at the…
“I dream of a world where the truth is what shapes people’s politics, rather than politics shaping what people think is true.” — Neil deGrasse Tyson
For the people who are safe,
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Programmable magnets are a unique piece of technology that is similar to the typical magnet; yet, different. Unlike normal magnets, it consists of multiple poles which can attract, repel the way we want to. It has the abilities to attach, align, latch, spring, torque, and rotate. In…
“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known” — Carl Sagan
The end of Second World War brought one of the most significant periods in the human history. The world was filled with excitement…
“A friend who’s in liquor production,Has a still of astounding construction,The alcohol boils,Through old magnet coils,He says that it’s proof by induction.”
I could not help but share it…
Just as Jesus had to battle his way through all the social bullshit on Earth to establish his reunion with the divine and be resurrected, so goes the story of the elements of life born in stars and the inner workings…
An addendum to this is what I heard Neil Degrasse Tyson say and that’s simply “look up.” Take your head out of the phone and look up. See the moon, the stars, trees and grass. Look around. It is an inspiration.
Food and containers are dependent on each other. You always need a container to keep the edible and beverages. With time and modern culture, plastic containers are popular for food storage. These are durable and look beautiful…
2016 was a year of shocks and recoveries. Brexit, Trump, Italian banks and a Chinese stock bubble bursting saw plenty of volatility in investment markets. In all cases markets recovered and the…
Too often humanity overlooks thinking, whether it is thinking about what is for dinner or thinking about real world…
Throughout the duration of time humans have spent on Earth, especially in the world we live in, an extensive amount of…
“a Northwestern University study of the collaboration patterns of STEM faculty has found that the playing fields in some disciplines are not as level as they first appear.
“Our findings in molecular…
Over the past few months, I have gotten involved in organizing a few upcoming coding sprints. Out of the Berkeley…
By way of introduction to this essay we perhaps should be prepared, with all due reverence, to consider the Creator, the Supreme Deity, as being unlimited and therefore with numerous facets and angles to consider. Whilst enjoying the intimacy and the imagery which studying the Bible…
My background is how nested systems — at all scales — evolve. While agree with virtually all of your assertions and sentiments, you let sapiens off too easy. As you intimate, we’re approaching an inflection point. The cosmos is agnostic about the outcome…
I think it’s very real, similar to the PC revolution a generation before (which I experienced firsthand). It’s “not relevant and not very good” until suddenly it is — and D-Wave is riding that “wave” right now. The 2000Q is a fantastic step in the right direction, and soon, lots of software applications are…
In October, 1933, the Nazi’s passed The “Editors Law” (Schriftleitergesetz), which is mostly knows for forbidding those of “non-Aryan” descent from working in the media. However, Section 14 is far more applicable, which says:
A curated list of the top Forensic News for Wednesday January 25th, 2017.
Many Americans believe that the human mind is rational (synonyms: balanced, normal enlightened). People do not…
Short chains of amino acid monomers which are linked by amide bonds are termed as peptides. Peptides are different from proteins due to difference in their sizes. Peptides…
Technically, gravity isn’t a theory. It’s a very real force. What is a scientific theory is our current explanation of it…the “theory of gravity”. Note I did say “scientific theory”, as that is a specific definition that is backed up by proveable, repeatable experiments that we can gleen truthful data from.
The K-12 Program covers Kindergarten and 12 years of essential training six years of essential instruction, four years of Junior High School, and two years of Senior High School to give adequate time to dominance of ideas and aptitudes, create long lasting learners…
Last weekend, that’s on 21st of January, we attended a workshop on ‘Internet of Things using Raspberry Pi and Python’ conducted by ‘Top Engineers’ team. Two presenters handled the workshop and we went with high expectations. It was from 9.30AM to 3.30PM…
