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The Big Bang Theory is a television comedy that premiered in 2007 and is still currently running. This hilarious comedy has won several awards since its beginning. Jim Parsons, who plays the stubborn and incredibly intelligent Sheldon Cooper, has also won numerous awards over the years. The character Sheldon Cooper is known for his off-the-wall [...]

Unless you’ve been living under a large rock (or, for that matter, a fallen meteoroid) for the majority of your life, you’re probably uncomfortably aware that humanity, as a whole, just doesn’t seem to be too confident about its ongoing survival.  Let’s face it: here on Earth we spend a wildly disproportionate amount of time [...]

Not too long ago I was thinking about the watches we used to have as children and how much fun they were. As the watch seems to be losing the child market in the present day due to smart phones, MP3 players and all the other gadgets us older people never had growing up, I [...]

With Japan’s earthquake-spawned nuclear tragedy gobbling up all the attention in the headlines these days, it’s easy to question why mad scientists ever thought it would be a good idea to boil water with uranium and plutonium? Few natural effects are as misunderstood by the public as radioactivity and radiation. The truth is there are [...]

Extreme has (luckily) lost most of its buzz-word status. It’s mostly back to meaning things on the fringe, way out near the edges, where they blow our minds with their extremeness, rather than simply having 3 times the corn syrup and colors nature never intended. That being said, for every type of substance, there is [...]

Ask anyone older than a fetus’s age, they’ll tell you that film isn’t what it used to be (like most things in life and especially when it comes to the entertainment industry).  Film used to be an artform in which filmmakers always took the long route in having their cinematic brainchild become a direct manifestation [...]

Usually these lists deal with what was, but after finishing my top ten inventions of the 19th and 20th century lists, I thought it might be fun to do a list of what might be coming down the road as well. Obviously, such a list is purely speculative, but the technologies/discoveries I list here are [...]

There can be no doubt that the twentieth century is one of the most remarkable in human history for its previously unparalleled rate of technological advances and scientific discoveries, a rate that continues to this day. In fact, there were so many new gadgets invented and discoveries made in the last century that it’s difficult [...]

Thought experiments are mental concepts or hypotheses, often resembling riddles, which are used by philosophers and scientists as simple ways of illuminating what are usually very dense ideas. Most often, they’re used in more abstract fields like philosophy and theoretical physics, where physical experiments aren’t possible. They serve as some hearty food for thought, but [...]

Nuclear weapons are the most destructive devices on earth.  The technology used to create these weapons involves nuclear fusion reactions.  The man who first developed the idea of a nuclear chain reaction was Hungarian physicist Leó Szilárd.  In 1934, Szilárd patented the idea of the atomic bomb.  In 1939, he wrote a letter to Albert [...]