So I’ve been putting off learning to drive for a couple of years now, I don’t know why but I kept pushing it back. I guess I never really felt the need to, since I don’t go to many places to begin with. I used to really rely on public transport...
“The person who says he knows what he thinks but cannot express it, usually doesn’t know what he thinks” –Mortimer Adler–
Information is everywhere, you can’t go through one day without learning something new. And the things you can learn...
I remember the first time I heard this song, I think I was in seventh grade, and my cousin went up to me and told me to listen to this really weird song with lots of different genres and moods mixed in. I’ve never heard anything like it, and...
The concept of automation should not be unfamiliar to all of us nowadays. Lots of processes in factories and such are automated by the technologies of today. Tasks that used to be performed by humans can now be done by robots and computers. Most...
I think we’ve all seen lighthearted stories being shared around of heartwarming and inspirational news, they can be stories about a local dog being adopted, or of our national team winning a competition. In a world where it seems most news we...
We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones.
Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born.
The potential people who could have been here in my place, but who will in fact never see the light of day...
This is a story about an Ancient Greek mathematician called Eratosthenes who calculated the earth's circumference over 2000 years ago using only simple tools and logic. The people of Ancient Greek already suspected that the Earth was round,...
When you spend a lot of time living in your own head, there’s a lot of things that you end up thinking about. The things I think about are mostly abstract concepts such as morality, justice, and how the world should be. How society could function...
“It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth.I didn’t feel like a giant, I felt very, very small” -Neil Armstrong-
It’s mind-blowing to...
The most astounding fact…
Is that the atoms that comprise life on the Earth, the atoms that make up the human body
Are traceable to the crucibles that cooked light elements into heavy elements in their core, under extreme temperatures and...
It’s easy to get bogged down thinking about all the mistakes you made, wishing you did things differently. But wallowing in the past is not going to change anything, it’s what you do now that matters. I have felt stuck for a long time, drowning...
We all want to change the world and make it a better place, but the task seems so impossible and daunting that we don’t know where to begin. Well the truth is a simple act of kindness can do much more than you think. Helping a lost person find...
The 21st century, a time where everything is at the end of your fingertips, we live in the most connected era in human history. You can reach out and talk to anybody in the whole wide world, and yet despite this global interconnectedness, it’s...
With Space Industries interest on deploying a manned mission to the Red Planet, and growing public interest in the new age of Space Exploration,
There’s been a lot of talk of, “Why Mars?” What can a desolate planet of dust and rocks offer us? And...
When I have a new goal in mind, it’s difficult for me to start taking the steps necessary to achieve it. I often get bogged down in the details, afraid of the risks that might not happen, and worrying about results that may not be perfect. And...