It's the 3rd decade of this century. We're living at the pinnacle of human technology, with every year touching a new high in terms of our scientific and technological prowess. We're using physics to manipulate electrons and atoms - which give us electricity and internet - the very foundation of modern life as we know…
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Douglas's overview effect on Earth: “Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lays a small unrewarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive…
There is an array of things we do not understand about ourselves yet. And maybe we never will. But of course, science tries. Living things sense the world around them in varying manners, and then respond accordingly. Often, we respond with action, voluntary or otherwise. Sometimes we simply feel and emote. Often, we respond with action, voluntary…
Some of the brilliant science technology tools being developed today have found admirers in science fiction and superhero universe for a long time. They are used liberally in this world of heroes well before they make an actual appearance in the world of men. Sometimes, these tools are just around the corner.
Take for instance…
Ever felt someone watching you from behind? Ever experienced gut feelings so strong they end up coming true? Can we perceive the future before it actually happens?
Most researchers term this feeling or pre-knowledge of an occurrence as the ‘Sixth Sense’. Premonition, they call it. In order to better elucidate the concept, it is necessary to delve…
Dick Lehr and Gerard O’Neill base Black Mass on the book called Black Mass: The True Story of an Unholy Alliance between the FBI and the Irish Mob. Scott Cooper, as the director of the movie, tries to portray the life of James “Whitey Bulger” – a badass gangster chief from the 1970's Boston. One of…
Is synthetic meat on your menu?
One of the greatest debates amongst the millennials is not a political, religious or scientific one, yet it brings all of these into its fold. It is the dispute of vegetarianism with the non-vegetarianism with a little side tiff wit vegan philosophy. And it is a multi-fold conversation, involving…
Ideally, a human being is born with 5 senses – sight, smell, hearing, touch and taste. These five senses enable us to perceive several actions, stimuli, changes and happenings around him and react to it. The senses are almost always combined to produce integrated responses.
However, since the late 1800s, if not earlier still, researchers and scientists have…
The concept of death has always been considered as sad and unfortunate. However, almost every culture, community and religion on this planet assumes (and accepts) the concept of a realm to which the dead transcend to. Could our perception of death be changed then, simply by reinventing one object, the coffin?
Designers Anna Citelli and Raoul Bretzel…
Over the course of the last decade and a half, the planet has been engulfed in several viral epidemics. The most distinct and wide-spread ones have been SARS, HIV-AIDS, H1N1, avian influenza (bird flu) and Ebola among other, more common viral diseases. The most recent virus to affect the population on a global scale is now Zika…