How To Turn The Ocean Into A Battery
July 06, 2020
Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion, or OTEC, takes advantage of the sun’s heating of the ocean to produce clean energy. It’s pretty cool.
How Hard Times Create A Better World
June 29, 2020
2020 has been a pretty terrible year. We’re all feeling the stress. But when you look back through the hard times in history, you find plenty of reasons to be hopeful. Here we look at tragic moments in history and how they brought about positive change
E-Waste: A Disaster In The Making
June 22, 2020
Every year, the world produces over 40 million tons of e-waste; discarded electronic components that are filled with valuable metals and thousands of harmful toxins. It’s quickly becoming a looming disaster.
If you have phones, tablets, laptops, or any other gadgets you need to get rid of, take the extra steps to do so responsibly. Here are some resources to help with that:
How Music Hacks The Brain
June 16, 2020
Music is a universal language. It kind-of makes us human. But why? Why does every culture around the world understand music? The answer may lie in what it does in our brains.
From mood regulation to immune system support, listening to music has measurable physiological effects on us. And learning to play music creates real differences in our brain structures that improve cognitive performance in several areas.
Some even argue that the development of music thousands of years ago shaped our species into what we are today, so let’s take a look at music, the most human thing we do.
How Tourism Will Change Space Travel – Starting Next Year
June 15, 2020
Space Tourism has been happening for 25 years, but it’s about to become a lot more common. And that’s a big deal in more ways than you think.
How To Become An Astronaut
June 08, 2020
With the launch of the Crew Dragon, we have entered a new era of space travel, including multiple rides to space. This will grow the need for astronauts. Want to be one of them? Here’s how.
Have We Found Our Future Home?
June 01, 2020
Eyeball planets are strange worlds where one side faces their star at all times, but they might actually be a good candidate for life, and a place we may find refuge in the far future.
Also, there may be a lot more of them out there than we think. So let’s talk about these strange places in the universe.
Why School Is Becoming Irrelevant
May 29, 2020
Our current system of publicly-funded K-12 schooling is surprisingly new, and a product of increased technology, which continues to expand our education system today. Where is this going in the future?
What happens when we all have access to any information we could ever need on our phones at all times? What happens when we merge with this technology? What happens when artificial intelligence can hack the brain with customized curricula designed to optimize the learning of each student?
Our schools look nothing like the schools our grandparents went to. What kind of schools await our grandchildren? Let’s take a look.
Murder At The South Pole
May 25, 2020
Rodney Marks was an astrophysicist who died under mysterious circumstances at the South Pole. Was he the only person in history to be murdered there? Let’s take a look.
Untangling String Theory
May 18, 2020
String theory is a very complex mathematical concept involving 11 dimensions that will melt your mind if you think too hard about it. Let’s try to break it up and make sense of what some people believe is the theory of everything.
