Is there knowledge to be gained from LEGO besides the obvious ‘stepping on a small plastic brick in bare feet really hurts’?
Technology
We live in an age where even having to use a phone that is plugged into a wall is considered archaic. So think for a moment of a time when vital...
Hand-built semi-submersibles are here, packed to the gills with enough cocaine to fuel any rager John Belushi and Whitney Houston might want to co...
We’ve been hearing about “peak oil” for years, but would you believe we might someday see peak gold? We often think of gold in the form of shiny bars...
A sightseeing tour from New Zealand to Antarctica deviated from its flight plan and crashed into a mountain, killing all 275 people on board and...
Just more than 60 years ago, on June 30, 1956, the last subway train rumbled through the underground tracks in the heart of Rochester, NY. The...
Timing is critical to the success of any project, and sometimes the timing for a big, bright-eyed and forward-thinking project is just terrible.
Over 120,000 people in the United States need a life-saving organ transplant. Every day, 22 of those people die, and every ten minutes another...
Ever since Alexander Graham Bell attempted (unsuccessfully) to use a primitive metal detector in 1881 to locate an assassin's bullet imbedded in the...
For digital natives, the online realms have become more familiar than aspects of the ‘real’ world. Now, concepts from the digital realm are gradually...
On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz (Edwin to his mother) Aldrin made history as part of NASA’s Apollo 11 mission, becoming the first humans to...
Hypothetically, could one copy of the 2013 film Gravity bring mankind, with its dependence on all things orbiting in the black abyss above us that is...
Remember being a kid and spending countless hours on summer nights looking up at the night sky, trying to discern constellations and looking for...
Modern sewage systems are a vital part of any major city. They take the rain out of our streets, transport away dirty water from washing dishes and...
The aviation field has changed in many remarkable ways over the years — evolving from the days of the Wright brothers, to space travel…except...
Scared of heights? We've been the first ones to capture a virtual ride on a 1,000-foot-high glass slide fixed along the tallest building of LA.
Alongside high-tech businesses and the accompanying high paid salaries, Silicon Valley has one of the highest concentrations of toxic waste sites in...
When Captain Robert M. Madison eased himself into the pilot’s seat behind the controls of his Boeing B-29 Superfortress on July 21, 1948, he had no...
Buried almost 75 feet below the ever bustling streets of London lies the graveyard of a simpler time in the history of England’s largest city.
There're not many tasks these days that folks in the western world would do for a paltry three dollars, especially a labour-intensive, time-consuming...
In the Marvel cinematic universe, Captain America spends 67 years trapped in glacier ice after the end of World War Two. This story is not about a...
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