Everyday weather has a tremendous impact on day to day life. While it generally tends to just slow down our commutes or affect our picnic plans, extreme weather can flip the tides of a war or bring a civilization to its knees. Mother Nature doesn’t take sides, and the world as we know it would…
Author: Adrian Chirila
A Mechanical Revolution is taking place all around us. It’s still in its inception, but progress is constantly accelerating. This is a process by which we exchange more and more human laborers in favor of mechanical ones. We’ve been doing that, in one form or another, ever since we discovered the first tools, but today…
New York City is a world capital in every sense of the word — it’s a cultural and economic powerhouse, and arguably the most influential city on the planet. But it wasn’t always this way, as the following cities once dominated the world around them. 10. Vijayanagara The city of Vijayanagara (“the city of victory”),…
As time goes by we’ll see some of the world’s armies become radically transformed. It’s already beginning — countries like China, Russia, India, Turkey, the United Kingdom, France, Germany and Israel all use unmanned vehicles. But none come close to America’s arsenal of over 7500 UAVs, which makes up more than a third of the…
If you think about it, human settlements tend to have their own gravitational pull. Like stars and planets in the universe, cities draw people from all around the “neighborhood.” The bigger the city, the larger the area it has a strong influence over. Some scientists like Geoffrey West from the Santa Fe Institute believe that…
You’d see a lot of changes when looking at a map of present day Europe and comparing it to a 30 year old one. Belarus, Moldova, Ukraine and the Baltic States were all part of the USSR. Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia were still states. Go back even further and the map looks even stranger. Putting all…
Time is never on our side. We’re all living on one single piece of rock, surrounded on all sides by the utter infinity of the Universe. And this single rock isn’t as safe as you’d think — there are many ways to make our planet extremely uninhabitable, extremely fast. There’s nowhere to run. Not with…
In a capitalist society, monopolies are a naturally accruing effect. Every business owner knows that in order to be successful, one must constantly invest in their company. As the company grows larger and more efficient, the services and products offered become more sought after. If the company becomes massive, they develop the power to influence…
Sports make us fit, fight stress and give us an overall feeling of well-being. We play sports because they’re fun, and because our brains tell us to! Scientists have found that sports help our minds cope with future conflicts and unforeseen circumstances, as well as develop our social skills. That’s why both kids and young…
Light is but a small part of a much, much bigger electromagnetic spectrum of radiation that we can’t see. The spectrum includes radio waves, microwaves, infrared light, visible light, ultraviolet, x-rays and gamma rays, but only visible light, which we interpret as colors, can be seen. Different colors are basically light at different frequencies, which…