Special Relativity is the 1905 babe of Albert Einstein, a physical theory on the interwoven relationship between space and time. In physics today it stands as an accepted and experimentally well-confirmed set of ideas. Consider the following. In a field by some train tracks, James throws a ball to Larry at 20 km/h, which he catches amiably. … Continue reading
Category Archives: The Helpful
Real vampires are afraid to “come out of the coffin”
PEOPLE WHO IDENTIFY AS VAMPIRES because they believe they need to drink human blood to stay healthy often find it difficult opening up to health professionals, fearing ridicule, disgust and a mental health diagnosis, a study has found. They walk among us. The blood-drinkers. And you couldn’t pick them from a normal person—because that’s what … Continue reading
The Robobee Cometh
“A PORTION OF HONEYBEE BRAIN has been digitally reconstructed by a team of researchers, and it is flying a quadcopter across rooms. With nothing but the cognition of this buzzy brain intelligence, the drone is able to recognise checkerboard patterns on the wall and it can autonomously travel across the room and land gently on the ground.” Continue reading
Butterfly Hunters: Nostalgia in philosophy and modern psychology
“We find ourselves in a time where optimism for the future is out-shadowed by longing for the past. Futurism used to involve dreams of jetpacks, flying cars, invincibility, and endless technological and societal possibilities.” Continue reading
Le Voyage dans la Mars
SIX HOPEFUL ASTRONAUTS have spent the last seven months inside a geodesic dome on the red slopes of Mauna Loa volcano in Hawaii to simulate what it would be like to live on Mars. It’s some way off from the real thing (~225 million kilometres on a good day), but researchers of NASA chose the … Continue reading
Monitoring your moods with an app and a hat
Currently in development is a device with the aim of monitoring your moods. All you have to do is put it on your head and press some buttons on an app. This wearable device, named ‘Thync’ boasts it will“shift your state of mind” and help you “conquer life”. Thync device in use. Image located from … Continue reading
Surrealistic art can be reassuring when contemplating your mortality
“[Surrealistic] art offers access to reassurance on a different level of understanding.” Continue reading
Patrick Bateman of American Psycho: A sexual profile
“This hyper-masculinity controls the narrative of the story; the sex Bateman has, the violence he commits, the clothes he wears, the job he has, are all told through a male vernacular of the time and place he’s from..” Continue reading
