Nowhere to go but down.
“Trigger warnings are verbal or written notifications provided by a professor to alert students that they are about to encounter potentially distressing material.” - from Coddling of the American Mind by Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff Real life does not give you trigger warnings. Young adults these days are soft. If you were to drop... Continue Reading →
"Do not answer. DO NOT ANSWER. DO. NOT. ANSWER." _____ Imagine yourself in the not-so-distant-future, you're in a laboratory late at night. You're tired, cold, and hungry from working ungodly hours - testing, upgrading, and testing - same old system maintenance. All of sudden, on one of the monitors - large, green text starts scrolling... Continue Reading →
I have 38 books on the go. But that’s okay that I haven’t finished any of them yet. I happen to agree with Naval that you don't necessarily have to finish a book, right away or even at all, in order to appreciate content within a book. Naval Ravikant's Secret to Reading Books in the... Continue Reading →
Yesterday I saw that Keanu Reeves was trending on twitter. Thank God, he’s okay (that beautiful, beautiful, beauty). Apparently he is being feature in the anticipated sci-fi epic of a video game - Cyberpunk 2077. https://twitter.com/i/events/1137842317686001664 I heard about this game last year. Looks really cool. What is cyberpunk anyway? “Cyberpunk is a subgenre of... Continue Reading →
Lets take a brief look at the recent increase in UFO conversations: -Pentagon has the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (2007-2012) -The infamous “Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet and an “unknown object” video -Military pilots are now being ENCOURAGED to report the incidents And now we have a History Channel documentary series that is doing a... Continue Reading →
So apparently a double asteroid flew by Earth about two weeks ago. Did you hear about it? I sure didn't. "On May 25th, 2019, a strange, double-asteroid (1999 KW4) flew past Earth at a distance and speed that is likely to make a lot of people nervous." (link) They call it a fly-by but it was... Continue Reading →
I recently came across one of the coolest sci-fi books ever: Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu. https://twitter.com/northerwild/status/1132130924957765632 https://twitter.com/northerwild/status/1132487046990311424 "Set against the backdrop of China's Cultural Revolution, a secret military project sends signals into space to establish contact with aliens. An alien civilization on the brink of destruction captures the signal and plans to invade... Continue Reading →
The internet is amazing. But you already knew that. But did you know that there is a live-stream on periscope where a guy smokes weed and listens to police radio scanners? The first time I watched the show there was a car chase where a woman stole a camper van that had two dogs in... Continue Reading →
Dr. Gad Saad is a, professor of marketing at Concordia University and the author of The Evolutionary Bases of Consumption and The Consuming Instinct. Professor Gad is known as the Colonel of Reason, Leader of Logic, and the Destroyer of Doublespeak. If you follow him on Twitter (which I highly recommend you do) then you will know... Continue Reading →
The future genetics revolution is coming. It's closer than you think. (cover image taken from https://artignition.com/cyberpunk-character-concept-art) Future humans are going to have many new ethical and moral challenges. One challenge in particular will test Homo Sapiens like never before: Big Data + BioTech = No more diseases Here are some excerpts from 21 Lessons for... Continue Reading →
