Posted Archive
Loz Blain – A new steel-based membrane could ressurect a 50-year-old battery technology, leading to cheap grid-level power storage and an increase in renewable energy use (Credit: Illustration modified from an original image by Felice Frankel). One of the primary problems with …
Loz Blain – The GXV-T program aims to move away from heavy armored vehicles in a quest for battlefield superiority, using some unique ideas (Credit: DARPA) Back in 2014, DARPA announced the launch of its Ground X-Vehicle Technology (GXV-T) program, an initiative designed …
Rich Haridy – Temples in Myanmar. (Credit: Dimitar Karanikolov / Behance CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). Dimitar Karanikolov is a London-based architect with a passion for photography. Over the last few years his experiments with drone photography have led to an exciting, architectural perspective on some of …
Pythagoras was a cult leader, Socrates loved to dance + 8 other revelations By Scotty Hendricks – Think of how many celebrities you know with personal lives for the world to see. How many of them do you share hobbies with? How many …
by Robby Berman – Liquid love (AUSTIN.HAPPEL) “Here’s to alcohol: the cause of, and solution to, all of life’s problems.” So sayeth noted philosopher Homer Simpson. It’s the ubiquitous social lubricant that makes it easier to socialize, and some would say, freely speak …
By Bill Eddy Co-founder and President, The High Conflict Institute – Here’s a fast fact about high-conflict people: life is better when you avoid them. Bill Eddy, mediation expert and president of the High Conflict Institute, describes them not only as difficult but …
by Derek Beres – The most common question I received during my decades of vegetarianism concerned protein. People were fascinated that a human could receive adequate supplies of the macronutrient without consuming animal products. This became especially relevant when I dabbled in veganism …
by Kevin Dickinson – Pexels, Ivan Obolensky – If you want to get ahead in life, then you’ll need to work hard, be disciplined, and sacrifice sleep. If you’re asleep, you’re not working, and if you don’t work constantly, you can never manage …
By Jane Bracher, for CNN – Naked women in pools of green liquid, strange looking plants, and text written in an unknown alphabet; they can all be found on the delicate parchment pages of a mysterious manuscript from the 15th century. And nobody …
A growing body of research is showing that hurricanes are becoming more dangerous. A recent analysis by noted climate scientists, though not a peer-reviewed study, suggested that even as the winds that move hurricanes along are getting weaker, the winds inside hurricanes are …
