American Political System Vs European System

A user (fragglet) on Reddit gave a great overview of why America has a two party political system and most of Europe has a multi-party political system.  The original post is Here. The Question: A ...

Heartbleed explained!

With news breaking on Monday, April 7th that the Heartbleed bug causes a vulnerability in the OpenSSL cryptographic library, which is used by roughly two-thirds of all websites on the Internet many pe...

The Universe 2014

I have always known the universe is a massive place, and I often stare into the stars and wonder what all is out there.  On many occasions I have seen images like this one, but nothing I have found r...

Sous-vide Cooking

I recently stumbled across some people that cooked food in a matter that I had never heard of, this method is called Sous-vide which is french for “under vacuum”.  The idea behind this c...

Commercial Space Program – Virgin Galactic

I don’t know about you but one of the top things on my bucket list is to go into outer space.  Only a few years ago your chances of going to space in your life were one in a few hundred million...

The Power of Friction

I have soldered wire with friction, lit things on fire with friction, even warmed my hands with friction, but this is just epic!...

Curiosity’s One Year Anniversary

One year ago today NASA and JPL’s Curiosity rover made an epic landing on the surface of Mars.  If you have never seen the video of Curiosity landing I highly recommend you watch the animatio...

Lockheed U-2!

Can someone please tell me how I can get a flight on a Lockheed U-2 like James May did? These are some amazing sights that he had the opportunity to see. Yes, it’s James May, aka, Captain Slow o...