Forget performance enhancing drugs. Get better the natural way with performance-enhancing bugs. More and more research has been coming out lately about the human microbiome, and specifically the organisms that populate the human gut. Recent studies have shown that the composition of a person’s microbiome can have a major affect on a person’s brain, their mood, and even whether they are likely to become obese.
There are very few people that actually enjoy meetings. I have never heard anyone say, “I can’t wait for the meeting this afternoon” unless it’s followed by “I won’t have to eat at my desk.” Continue reading
Fifty years ago, television shows and cartoons showed us a future where people would be using flying cars, hovercrafts, or maybe even teleportation as a common way to get around. As the years ticked by, we saw small features, both aesthetic and functional, change and improve within the automobile industry, but nothing big until recently. Now we have fully electric vehicles with AI-enabled, self-driving, semi-autonomous features, as well as fully autonomous vehicle applications and experiments going on globally. Continue reading
We all admire creative people, although we don’t always reward them for their creativity, as shown by the case of Vincent Van Gogh or Scott Joplin. Van Gogh, unable to sell even one of the many paintings he had created, committed suicide. Scott Joplin, although regarded as a master of ragtime music, was unable to get his opera published. The starving artist has become a cliché, with many creative people coming close to starving, or at least living in poverty as they try to pursue their art. Continue reading
If you’re reading this, water is probably easily available to you. You may even have a bottle of water sitting right next to you. Chances are, you’ve never had to worry about how you were going to get your water. It’s just always been there. Continue reading