Tales to Inform, Inspire, and Motivate
Physics is hard. I should know, I was an applied physics major in college and got my butt kicked by quantum mechanics and thermodynamics. And dancing is hard. I should also know. I took a ballroom dancing class for 6 months and salsa dancing for another 6 months, and my wife still says I dance …
This past weekend, I cleaned the house, fixed a hole in my fence, and wrote the 1st draft of three posts for this website. I was feeling pretty good about myself and feeling quite accomplished…and then I read about Jonny Kim. That’s DOCTOR Jonny Kim, a former Navy SEAL. Oh, and did I mention he’s …
This week, a year after Trump and the Republicans trounced the Democrats, the Dems bounced back. On Election Day 2017, a large number of seats up for grabs flipped from Red to Blue. Now, this post isn’t here to rah-rah about this turn of events. For a good summary of the highlights of who won …
When your home is invaded, your country destroyed, your town, village, or city occupied, it takes heroic courage and herculean effort to resist, to fight back. To protect your loved ones, your friends, your way of life. You’d imagine either a plucky band of rebels or a diehard group of fighters. Or sometimes, all you …
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Today’s Tale of Awesomeness is actually a series of five smaller tales. They are all from the stories of Nasruddin or Nasreddin Hodja. Who? The real Nasruddin was a Seljuk Turk, a witty and satirical Sufi who was full of stories and used anecdotes to teach his words of wisdom. If you’re not from the …
109 years ago today, the world changed. In the fall of 1908, the world’s first “automobile for the masses” rolled off the assembly lines ready for the public. The Ford Motor Company’s Model-T debuted to the world. And it went on to radically change, for good or ill, not just the way humanity went from …
This week, Canada elected its first leader of a major political party that hails from an ethnic minority. His name is Jagmeet Singh and he became the first leader of the New Democratic Party of Canada. This by itself is a remarkable development. Especially given the political climate we are in now, and the highly …
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