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“Doubt” is better than “Certainty”

I stumbled upon extracts of an interesting lecture on the practice of design by acclaimed New York designer Milton Glaser, a man with over 50 years in the business, in which he had some...

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Harvest electricity from the air

Scientists in North Carolina have found a way to capture microwave signals from the air around us, (satellite, mobile phone and wi-fi signals), and convert them into electricity, capable of powering a...

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Photos of abandoned places

Photographer Dan Marbaix travels from city to city, exploring abandoned houses, asylums, churches, state and more. He has been arrested over 20 times for trespassing, but refuses to give up his search...

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Meet ALADDIN, it predicts the future…

This is the ALADDIN “Collective Intelligence” network, an incredibly powerful computer network based out in a tiny town called East Wenatche in the middle of nowhere in Washington State. It guides the...

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Local street art by Invader

I just spotted this cool Simpsons mosaic street art on Servette, Geneva. I recognized the style, and was pretty sure this was by the famous French street artist known as “Invader“, (who’s pieces have...

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Limitless energy for the planet

Currently 35 nations including the United States, Russia, China, Japan, India, South Korea, France, Germany, the UK, Ireland, (and many more, even Switzerland!), are working together on one of the...

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Three cheers again for Zuckerberg!

He just posted photos of his child getting vaccinated, (because Mark Zuckerberg is a responsible, intelligent adult), and the anti-vaxxers responded with their usual paranoid, delusional, incoherent...

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Douglas Adams was right! (almost)

Douglas Adams, author of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, once jokingly wrote: There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it...

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THREE BILLION DOLLARS a year?

Did you know that US taxpayers give Israel roughly THREE BILLION DOLLARS a year to fund it’s occupation of Palestine? That’s around EIGHT MILLION DOLLARS PER DAY. You can start to understand why the...

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NASA DIDN’T change your Zodiac sign

If you thought you were a Scorpio or Sagittarius, chances are you might be wrong! More than 3,000 years ago the ancient Babylonians divided the Zodiac into 12 equal parts, represented by the...

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What if Trump was working for the Clintons?

So Donald and Bill used to be best friends, right? They were golfing buddies, and have interacted socially for decades. Trump made regular donations to the Clinton Foundation, and also to Hillary’s...

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“Doubt” is better than “Certainty”

I stumbled upon extracts of an interesting lecture on the practice of design by acclaimed New York designer Milton Glaser, a man with over 50 years in the business, in which he had some...

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Indigo Who? Rainbows and Isaac Newton

There are really only six colours of the rainbow, the three primary colours, (red, yellow and blue), and the three secondary colours, (orange, green and purple). In fact, rainbows don’t have...

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New “deepfakes” face-swapping concerns

The practice of swapping faces in a video, (dubbed “deepfakes” or “deepfaking”), was once the domain of highly-skilled CGI experts. But now, thanks to new deep-learning AI software, anyone can create...

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