Brigham Young University believes that its star Mathletes should receive the same kind of adulation and school spirit as its star athletes.  And so [...]

If you’re a frequent visitor to this site, you know we love nerds.  Science nerds, math nerds, computer nerds – all variety of thoughtful humans committed to the study of [...]

Stephen Hawking, Carl Sagan and many other notable contemporary thinkers have posited that we are not alone in the universe, that aliens are a mathematical probability, but so far we [...]

When two of my favourite things are combined – music & robots – it may be my best day ever. Self-described “world’s heaviest metal band” Compressorhead, is a trio of [...]

On October 9, the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Serge Haroche and David Wineland for their work in the area of the interaction between light and matter.  So [...]

Too Cool .  To see this dude on his flying machine — we sure have come a long way from the old days of flapping wire frames and balloons !!!

Yelp is an awesome app, right? – real people around the globe, rating and reviewing all manner of restaurants, shops & spas in passionate detail.  Reviewers take their Yelping very [...]

When we first came across this story, we all said “Really??” Yes, really. Body piercer Dave Hurban, from Dynasty Tattoo  in New Jersey, has a love of body art and technology. [...]

Urban centres around the globe suffer from similar ills – population densities which result in tremendous amounts of consumer waste and, consequently, environmental pollution. Architects, urban planners and designers have [...]

Indianapolis: Jacob Barnett wants to be a genius when he grows up. No wait, at 13 years of age he’s already a genius, and he’s setting out to disprove Einstein’s [...]