Some time ago I stumbled upon the video below, which I loved so much, I knew I would be putting it in a post without a splinter of a doubt. It not only features my favorite person of all time (Feynman. Yogi Berra, hélas is second), saying that imagination will never let us humans... »

The motto of the WordPress team is CODE IS POETRY. If you decide to have a go at this post, you may discover that PHYSICS IS SO MUCH MORE. Enjoy! In a previous post, The Physics of moving Onwards, we discussed how Forces acting in a given direction on a point with mass, allow us... »

In a eclectic, multifarious resource like we are trying to develop here, you would know exotic, obscure or outright weird things will be mentioned. Such is the case with Annals of Imperial Rome written by Tacitus, that I read a few years back. If you find the title boring and overly uptight already, then... »

Do you keep falling asleep in meetings and seminars? What  about those long and boring conference calls? Here’s a method we developed over the years to help our colleagues and business partners to stay awake and pay attention while listening to those high priced, buzz promoting, motivational lecturers management is so fond of calling... »

The Yukon Quest 1000-mile international sled dog race is held every February. It runs from Whitehorse, Yukon to Fairbanks, Alaska in odd-numbered years, and from Fairbanks to Whitehorse in even-numbered years. »

Generally misunderstood, creators of great magic things that have some sort of internal logic to them, engineers are elusive creatures, whose habits and methods aren’t properly documented in the realms of popular culture. No, they don’t plan to rule the world or destroy civilization as we know it. Those are mad scientists, the entertainment... »

A few things will happen for sure in 2012. The year will begin January 1 and will last up to December 31. Easter is April 8, Ramadan begins July 20 and Diwali will be held around November 13. But if you are reading this, odds are that you want to know what will not... »

Aneena passed one red light before another and another. The turquoise sensors on her dashboard beeped and flashed frantically announcing some oncoming speed radars, but she did not care. She would not slow down. One mile below, the ever astounding skyline of the Windy City seemed to have lost its flair, projecting a hazy,... »

If you know what a Indigo Child is but you don’t buy into it, you’re probably a member of Carl Sagan’s Indigo. Sagan himself would have disavowed the terminology, but this generation that in the pre or teens congregated weekly around Cosmos in the TV... »

We have discussed here how the emerging GooVista Frank world is 1) making you ignorant and powerless regarding the processes going on inside your computer, and 2) confining you to cages with all sorts of barriers between netizens defined by some big corporation business rights. We argued that intellectual property is important, as can... »