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Spring forward and fall back, or so it goes with the time change that happens each season. For those who enjoy partying late into the night, there is excitement on the Sunday morning the clock moves back an hour. But…
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“You know its autumn when…………..” How many times have you heard this statement, listened to other’s ideas on what autumn means to them, and smiled to yourself in agreement. Often people finish this statement by describing the many different smells…
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The Doomsday Clock predicts that the world will come to an end at midnight. The clock is a powerful symbol of the human potential for self-destruction first seen in 1947 on the cover of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists….
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Inventions are products of one’s ingenuity. However, most inventions are often dubbed as stupid, silly and absurd. Take for instance, the Wright Brothers, their creative thinking led to them being ridiculed and laughed at but after more than a century,…
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What Is Empirical Evidence? Empiricism is the basic practice of science. Science can be described as empirical because it relies on direct experience or observation in order to describe or explain phenomena. In other words, a scientific or empirical approach…
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Benjamin Franklin was born on January 17, 1706 in Boston, Massachusetts. He was an inventor, scientist, politician, and author. His father was a soap and candle maker named Josiah Franklin. His mother was the second wife of Josiah whose name…
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Frederick Winslow Taylor was a management theorist who took a scientific approach to management. In 1911, Frederick Taylor published ‘The Principles of Scientific Management’ in which he described an application of a scientific method to management would greatly improves the…
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Refrigerators. 99.9% of all American households have eagerly embraced these incredible and necessary appliances. When I think of important appliances, microwaves and refrigerators easily come to mind. How could men, women and children exist without these wonderful inventions? The history…
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The Grandfather Paradox illustrates why time travel into the past is impossible. The paradox goes like this: Sally is an angry young woman who blames her grandfather, and his dedication to the family business, for most of her problems in…
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The first pens were likely the reed writing utensils used by the early Egyptians (some historians claim Egyptians used such devices as early as 3000 BC). These simple thin devices were formed from a single piece of reed carved carefully…
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