Tales to Inform, Inspire, and Motivate
If you’ve ever wondered where and how the things we use in our everyday lives came from, it really comes down to one thing. To make our lives easier. Look around and notice how everything we use has greatly influenced and improved our everyday lives as well as advanced the world we live in. Pretty …
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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When you think of “Hollywood heartthrob”, who comes to mind? Brad Pitt? George Clooney? Ryan Gosling? OK, let’s rewind a little more to the golden age of Hollywood. Cary Grant? Rock Hudson? Marlon Brando? If we rewind a little further, all the way to the dawn of cinema, who can you think of now? We’re …
This is a story of a tremendous mathematical genius from the early 20th century. This person helped illuminate profound fundamental truths of the universe using mathematics that the layperson could barely fathom, and in so doing set the bedrock on which some of the most important breakthroughs in physics in the 20th century took place. …
The idea of the Black Samurai is a popular concept and a powerful motif in the popular imagination. It took root in the 50s, 60s, and 70s when Japanese martial arts first entered the American consciousness and many of those who took up these fighting arts were African American. They were attracted to the physical …
When someone says secret agent, who do you think of? James Bond? Jason Bourne? Austin Powers? What about “detective”? Sherlock Holmes, I’ll bet. Any others? The Hardy Boys? Magnum PI? Batman? If you had to pick someone who was both? Tough one. But wait, have you ever heard of Kate Warne? Kate Warne was arguably …
Late last year, a movie opened called “Hidden Figures” that piqued my interest. I had not heard of the story portrayed in the movie before, but the more I found out about it, the more I became convinced that this was an amazing story that needed to be told. I say this not just because …