Apr 13, 2016 | Geek & Sundry
How did you spend your days in school, besides praying for snow days and cringing about Phys Ed? If you’re like these students, who will be attending the White House Science Fair, you’ve been busy changing the world. On Wednesday, in the sixth annual White House...
Mar 28, 2016 | Geek & Sundry
Playing a video game isn’t quite like taking an LSD trip: You’re not infused with a sense of well being, and you don’t acquire insight into the workings of the universe. But as with some hallucinogens, video games can alter your consciousness. Researchers have known...
Mar 18, 2016 | Geek & Sundry
Want to introduce children to video games but afraid the only skill they’ll develop is a quick trigger finger? Fear not. Researchers at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, along with colleagues at Paris Descartes University, have found that children...
Mar 9, 2016 | Geek & Sundry
Remember that part in The Matrix when Neo got his brain uploaded with martial arts, and whoa, he knows kung fu? Image Credit: Warner Bros. Studios What seemed like science fiction may become eventually science fact, thanks to research done at Boeing- and GM-owned HPL...
Mar 5, 2016 | Geek & Sundry
The 1920s through 1939 (the advent of World War II) is known as “the golden age of travel.” And as it happens, it was also the golden age of travel posters. With trains as a reliable method of transportation, and automobiles becoming an affordable luxury, people...