Technology

It’s tempting to believe that when we Google something, what returns is not only the answer we were looking for, but the right answer. We’re lazy, and after years of never having to remember anything for ourselves, our brains barely work anymore. I think that’s how brain science works. This joke, though, proves that you shouldn’t...

Whenever the word “nuclear” is mentioned, some people seem to get a little bit nervous because of the negative connotation it has. But maybe nuclear energy is the ideal component we need moving forward when it comes to concerns about the environment? I really don’t know much of anything about this subject, so I’m gonna...

The Internet and social media have completely revolutionized how we do pretty much everything in our lives. The way we interact with each other, the way we do business…all of it has been impacted by this technology that was not available to us about three decades ago. And, as you already know, the atmosphere online...

It’s one of the more ironic things about our society, I think, that now that we all have phones in our hands pretty much 24/7, we’ve developed an intense dislike of actually speaking on them. We’d rather text or DM or PM or Snapchat or heck, even email before actually picking it up and talking to...

I would venture to say that for the disabled people of the world, most spaces could do more as far as accessibility. Abled people don’t spend enough time considering the needs of those who grow up with different experiences, and the result is spaces that don’t work as well as they should for every single...

If you’re a space geek – or if you’ve seen the movie The Martian (or read the book) – you realize that one of the bigger issues with colonizing a planet like Mars is how long it takes to get there and back. And, you know, how long it would take help to get there and back if...

It sounds crazy, right? Maybe so, but that doesn’t mean it’s not true – there are already places in the world using iron as a renewable fuel source. In the Netherlands, a brewery called Royal Swinkels Family Brewers is making history by using a cycle of renewable iron as fuel for its furnace. They’re working...

In 1993 Myst, a first-person, graphic adventure puzzle game, rocked the world of PC gaming. If you didn’t play it yourself, you might remember it from your parents CD-ROM collection. The original Myst sold six million copies and inspired new genres of video games. Now, it’s back, reimagined for the Oculus Quest VR headset. And...