I recently saw an article about the “most expensive things on Earth.” The item that topped the list was antimatter. It had an estimated price tag of $59.8 trillion per gram! Most people know what matter is—it makes up everything […]
If you enjoy music and have a history of listening to pop songs, you already can listen to a song and identify which decade it was released because of the sound and style. It’s interesting to learn that a new […]
One of my first forays into charitable giving was to support poor children to supply them with clean water, schooling, and other basic needs. You would see pictures of the kids and get periodic updates. One of the things that […]
In a nod to Star Trek fans, NASA flight surgeon Dr. Josef Schmid gave a Vulcan salute as he was appearing in hologram form on the International Space Station in October 2021. This all was able to happen through […]
Over twenty years ago NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope team set out to build “the most powerful telescope that anyone has ever put in space…” according to Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington. He believes […]
We didn’t see that coming! Today we found out that the Endurance 22’s ship, the Agulhas, got stuck in the ice while searching for Shackleton’s famous ship in Antarctica. Just a few weeks ago a team of adventurers and scientists, […]
A private donation of $10 million has launched an ambitious crew to search for “the most unreachable wreck ever…” according to Endurance22 director Mensun Bound. The shipwreck occurred in Antarctica in 1914 as Ernest Shackleton’s ship, Endurance, was stuck in […]
While working full-time as part of the Goldman Sachs global investment firm, Dambisa Moyo, a Zambian economist and writer wrote the very popular book titled Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for […]
The people in Cambodia are lifting themselves out of poverty! There has been a notable rise in the standard of living there for the past 15 years. According to the World Bank, between 1995-2017 Cambodia has sustained an average growth […]
By historical standards, work-related fatalities have fallen 95% in the 20th century. Steven Pinker, a Harvard University psychologist, documents data in his book Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress (2018) estimating that 61 workers per 100,000 […]