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For decades, a piece of his skull sat in a Russian archive - our most decisive proof that the most evil man of the 20th century died in 1945. When scientists finally tested the bone in 2009, they discovered it belonged to a woman under 40. The evidence we trusted for over 60 years ...
Still, building a Batmobile, treehouse, bridge, a police mobile command center or the Eiffel Tower out of Lego bricks is more than just child's play. Research has shown that building with Lego bricks allows children to hone their motor, spatial and language skills. It helps children on the...
Cellulose is great at absorbing water, which is why we make towels out of cotton instead of polyester. Water molecules cling to cellulose and climb along it through a process called capillary action — cellulose can even defy gravity in order to pull the water along its surface. Because water...
Even though Bauhaus designs looked utilitarian, most of them were basically impossible to make at scale. That is, until our hero, Marcel Breuer, Mr. Cesca Chair himself, stepped in and changed everything. Breuer was an early ...
And even if you don’t agree with me that, given our current economic situation, a 1% inflation rate for the U.S. is destructive, maybe you’d at least agree that, if our inflation rate were to rise to 3%, it wouldn’t be that harmful. On the other hand, there should be no que...
It was wildly expensive. Still is. Even though Bauhaus designs looked utilitarian, most of them were basically impossible to make at scale. That is, until our hero, Marcel Breuer, Mr. Cesca Chair himself, stepped in and changed everything. Breuer was an early student of the Bauhaus. And ...
We are to put leaven out of our hoouseholds--there is to be none. This obviously has to be done prior to the start of the Days of Unleavened Bread in order to obey the command in Deuteronomy 16:4. By the way, you do not need to eat much of it--a half-inch square or a cent...
If you go out of your way to find diverse experiences it will become impossible for you to miss ideas simply because your homogenous outlook filtered them out. Thinking at the wrong level At any moment on any project there are many levels of decisions. Part of being a smart person is to...
Because this is magic we’re talking about. It’s supposed to go places science can’t, defy logic, wink at technology, fill us all with the sensawunda that comes of gazing upon a fictional world and seeing something truly different from our own. In most cultures of the world, magic is...