If you sleep for eight hours a day and live to be 90 years old, you will have been asleep for 30 years of your life.
A software engineer and former professor, Daniel Oldis, thinks we should be finding a way to capitalize on this time, and to use it to interact with other people.
Oldis has studied lucid dreaming for four decades, and is on the experimental threshold of being able to send messages to other people, asleep or not, via the internet.
Objects in mirror are closer than they appear. Objects projected onto your back seat appear exactly as they are.
While a rear view mirrors’ convexity gives us a wide field of view, the sacrifice we make is that these object appear smaller and thus, further away.
While convexity is useful while changing lanes, it’s not so helpful after you’ve knocked someone’s bumper off while parallel parking.
Monkey.co.uk hauled in $22,400 this month
What a huge month for reported domain name sales. There were at least six, six figure sales, along with countless names changing hands in the high five figures.
It’s amazing to see the general public’s knowledge and understanding of the value of great domain names grow at an exponential rate. There’s no doubt internet real estate is booming.
Join us as we take a look at some of the top grossing and most obscure domain sales of the month of October.
Courtesy of Philips
The light bulb, a modern marvel, has become bland and underappreciated. How did we let this happen? What can we do to bring that spark back?
Courtesy of Lucasfilm Ltd.
If you felt a disturbance in the force today, now you know why.
Two of the most iconic movie franchises in the world exchanged hands today when George Lucas, founder of Lucasfilm Limited, sold the company, along with the rights to both the Star Wars and Indiana Jones franchises to the Walt Disney Company for $4.05 Billion in cash and stock.
Star Wars diehards can take solace in the fact that George Lucas will remain onboard as a creative consultant, as well as the fact that the storyline for the new trilogy, Episode 7 and beyond, was actually drafted by Lucas himself.
Via PropheticAlert
It’s the eternal debate; where does the human soul go after we die? This isn’t about religious denominations, this is about the two main contingencies on the matter. Do we go to Heaven or Hell, or is life a random occurrence that took billions of years to manifest?
Mitt Romney hopes to become the 45th President of the United States of America, and is locked in a heated battle with incumbent President Barack Obama. Despite being a prominent national figure, much of who Mitt Romney is remains a mystery. For your reading pleasure, here’s 10 astounding, unknown facts about Mr. Romney.
Via Boston.com
With the 2012 Presidential Election in full swing, it’s only fitting that we learn some obscure, lesser known facts about the candidates. Today we’ll review some unknown facts about President Barack Obama, and tomorrow, we’ll look at his challenger Willard “Mitt” Romney.
Peter Thiel is a 45 year old German-American technology entrepreneur, philanthropist and investor. You may know him as the co-founder of PayPal, but Thiel’s accomplishments are legitimately too many to mention.
Thiel is one of the most interesting people on the planet, but a lot remains unknown about the influential gentleman. So without further adieu, here are ten facts you probably didn’t know about Peter Thiel.
Courtesy of First Warning Systems
October is breast cancer awareness month. Each year, over one million women worldwide are diagnosed with breast cancer. Within that same time frame, 400,000 women will die from this disease. This doesn’t have to be the case. With early enough detection, it can be halted nearly 100% of the time.
The main issue is that cancerous tumors are extremely small and often undetectable for nearly a decade via current methods! Not only that, the options available today have a surprising number of negatives including radiation exposure, discomfort and false positives at an alarming rate of over 40%!