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Immortality has been at the center of more films and novels that I can possibly count on my two hands, but with every new possibility of immortality, there rise a dozen more skeptics. With good reason, the majority of the U.S. population does not believe in immortality nor do they…
Even a three-year-old child knows that the grass is green, the sky is blue and the snow is white. Everyone is aware that a day has 24 hours, and a minute has 60 seconds. However, there are not many who have ever wondered if the world is really as we…
I heard an interesting podcast episode the other day from Radio Labs. It was called 9 volt Nirvana, and the guest Sally Adee spoke about a simulation training exercise used by DARPA. She was asked to aim, shoot, reload and continue on as a sniper for 20 minutes in this…
John Conway (Ph.D. Mathematician from Princeton) in the '70s developed a simple game based on a checkerboard. The rules were as follows: A single checker piece with less than two other checker pieces dies due to a lack of tribe. A single checker piece with two or three checker pieces lives…
Aren't we all just Livers? Living in the now, while constantly battling the then. Rocks, plants, minerals, life, & death - all packed into one big mush. One can say that you are a separate event from your death, but that would be wrong if you believe in the Big…
Many people have confusion regarding the different varieties of cannabis and thousands of different uses of this plant around the world. The results of ignorance and misinformation lead thousands of people to jail, boost organized crime, and deprive the state and citizens of an important source of revenue. Cannabis is…
No one in the world can fathom what quantum mechanics is, this is perhaps the most important thing you need to know about it. Granted, many physicists have learned to use its laws and even predict phenomena based on quantum calculations. But it is still unclear why the observer of…
Have you read the novel Flatland? If you haven’t, maybe you should, since this book sets out the idea of the multidimensionality of the space and presents it in an unusual way. More particularly, the protagonist of the book called “A Square” is a creature from a two-dimensional world, where…
