Every guy I’ve ever talked to has uttered the phrase that epitomizes male machismo and stupidity at the same time: “I can do that.” And usually they’re not far off the mark, even though “Should I do that?” might be the next logical step. With the upcoming finale to Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy coming out…
Over the past few weeks news stories having been breaking across the country that account events that eerily resemble the signs of a zombie apocalypse. On May 26th 65 year old Ronald Poppo was brutally attacked and had his face chewed off by Rudy Eugene, 31. Eugene growled in response to the police’s pleas to…
The evolutionary history of mankind can be summed up as stopping the use of our opposable thumbs to make farting noises with our armpits and masturbating to building incredible feats of architecture, machinery, and putting the brain hard to work in decoding the ultimate lock in understanding the genetic code. And of course, figuring out…
Everyone wants superpowers. Mostly because they’re cool and also because everyone has that fantasy where they fight crime in a cape and move about the night with stealth and intelligence as opposed to tripping over their trash cans and alerting your parents when they were thirteen. However, the fact of the matter remains that if…
The Gundam Series have long dominated and maintained its popularity in today’s popular culture since the late 1970s. Whether it is Mobile Suit Gundam or Gundam SEED, it is clear that the Gundam franchise is a landmark in the world of mecha anime and will continue to garner fans worldwide from one generation to the…
The past few weeks have seen an uprising in the American past time of coming up with your zombie contingency plan. With the devastating events that took place on the MacArthur Bridge in Miami where Rudy Eugene attacked Ronald Poppo and ate nearly all of his face off, the threat of a zombie apocalypse 2012…
Sure, we have the iPhone 4S, 3D Television and Xbox Kinect, but where are the flying cars, teleportation devices, or robot helpers? The classic television series The Jetsons predicted a button pushing lifestyle by 2062, where everything you needed was at your very fingertips. Whether its instant food, access to your flying car, or traveling…
Recent word from the MIT News Office is that MIT researchers have engineered a device that delivers a tiny, high-pressure jet of medicine through the skin without the use of a hypodermic needle. According to the abstract in the journal of Medical Engineering & Physics,the MIT team previews the functionality of this latest scientific marvel:…
The Hollywood Blockbuster movie Minority Report starring Tom Cruise had left us all gasping in wonder when they first showed us a window that also serves as a screen, which we wrote off as fanciful science fiction. However, technology companies often use science fiction as a medium of inspiration for their new inventions, which is…
I think it’s about time that we stand up, collectively, and tell the powers-that-be that this is not the future we were promised. I mean, when I was a wee thing, running around in my R2D2 Underoos and watching cartoons, I imagined that my adult life would be more like George Jetson’s and less like,…
When you think about the technology in science fiction like the Star Trek or Star Wars series, the first thing that comes to mind is typically things like time travel, warp drives and light sabers — things that, in many cases, exist only in the imagination. However, you should not look at these movies as…
There are many reasons that we may not have received radio communications or a visit from aliens yet. While the Drake Equation satisfies the idea that life is in fact common in the universe, it is also spread out very far and possibly brief in nature, possibly explaining the fact why we haven’t met an…
