There’s this idea I keep returning to: that reality, as we perceive it, is a hallucination. A shared, adaptive hallucination. Our senses don’t give us truth—they give us usefulness. The way a bat “sees” with sonar or a fish senses electric fields—those are real to them. We just get the human version. Filtered. Trimmed. Functional. […]
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Between 2016 and 2018, NASA’s Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna (ANITA) detected unusual radio pulses originating from beneath Antarctica’s ice. These signals appeared to come from below the horizon, contradicting expectations that they should reflect off the ice surface. A recent study, utilizing data from the Pierre Auger Observatory in Argentina, analyzed 15 years of cosmic […]
There are already so many unnecessary electronic annoyances in cars that you can’t drive in peace without beeping, music, warnings, whistles, or flashing lights going off! I’d disable every single one of them if I could! Beeping, flashing lane detectors — who needs them? People who haven’t learned the rules of the road shouldn’t be […]
A few weeks ago I went out with my cousins in my hometown. We went to a pub where we played table soccer. It is always fun to play with it. According to my childhood friend, I play in a very annoying way because my opponents cannot decide if I am that bad that I […]
Multiverse theories are seductive. Somewhere out there, you’re richer. Smarter. You didn’t say that awkward thing at the party. You wrote the novel, didn’t procrastinate, didn’t miss your chance. It’s a comforting fantasy—until it isn’t. Recently I read that some physicists think the multiverse might not exist at all. That all those other versions of […]
It was said by Thomas Edison. But what did he mean? In my opinion, it means that in order to have a great idea, you need to have a lot of ideas because many ideas will not be successful. But the more ideas you have, the more chance you have that one of them will […]
As for me, I am satisfied with my job at the moment. I am still improving my history-teaching skills and the middle school is the perfect place for this. My future plan is to go to a high-school someday because the academic expectations are higher, so I can connect to my subject at a deeper […]