Trees Don’t Live Forever
The amazing Redwood is the tallest tree in the world. They can soar to heights in excess of 350 feet, over 100 meters. Contrary to common sense, redwood is a…
Adam Savage Loves Star Trek
“I want Star Trek future... I want that utopia. Everyone should have food. Everyone should have shelter. That’s the world that Star Trek lives in... We have enough of both…
What Did You Expect?
“What the hell did you expect me to do? You told me to love my neighbors, to model the life of Jesus. To be kind and considerate, and to stand…
The Land of Bir Tawil
Did you know that there is a patch of unclaimed territory on the map? A little stretch of desert that no government lays claim to? It’s right between Egypt and…
A Bent Sword
When I was a kid, I was obsessed with swords. I grew up on Lord of the Rings and Star Wars and those epic sword fights. When I started to…
How To Aim
Have you ever fired a projectile or tried to put a ball in any sort of goal? Have you ever aimed at something and then worked to get closer and…
An Intimate Knowledge of Relativity
I wrote in a previous essay that Isaac Newton’s incredible understanding of physics is like a video in 720p while Albert Einstein’s understanding is like the same video in 4k.…
How Water Works
I recently responded to Neil deGrasse Tyson’s perspectives on transgenderism and then I saw another clip of him and it gave me another thought. Temperature is a spectrum. Humans created…
Neil deGrasse Tyson: A Rebuttal
Feel free to check out my full essay on gender theory "In the universe, very few things are discrete in what they are. There’s, in almost all cases, a continuum…
My Transgender Experience
I just want to start off with a disclaimer: I don’t know what society needs to do about transgenderism. It’s a complex and fraught topic with plenty of important things…