OK, so I have a little bit of Trekkie in me but I’ve always enjoyed the more boring aspects of the Space Shuttle, like how do they position the Shuttle onto the launchpad? The? 7 hour, 3.4-mile trip began at 6:38 a.m. and was completed at 1:31 p.m. That’s about 1/2 mile an hr. Hmmm… “Space shuttle Atlantis was moved Oct. 13 from the Vehicle Assembly Building to Launch Pad 39A at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in...

Happy Columbus Day everyone! I was just going over my History Channel subscription delivered to me via email and thought I’d share this short clip on Columbus day. Columbus could be considered one of the most successful entrepreneurs of all time (among other things). Very interesting piece! “From the YouTube History Channel: Christopher Columbus is known as many things, but he was also a master...

Just in time for President Obama’s big Speech at the U.N. today about Global Warming, the premiere of possibly the first movie to be distributed worldwide without the help or financing of any major movie studio and it happens to be on Global Warming. The Age of Stupid is not only a film about global warming but could represent the future of film making. Will major movie studios be needed in the future? Will this movie successfully...

This is an incredibly interesting presentation. The carrot and stick method of motivating people does more harm than good.  Rewards narrow our focus and restrict our possibilities whereas working completely autonomously increases creativity. If your a manager of people in any field,  watch and learn! Career analyst Dan Pink examines the puzzle of motivation, starting with a fact that social scientists know but most managers don’t:...

I was doing some research about “Digital Natives” for a freelance piece of work I am writing. I feel like a digital native but technically I am not so the research was an eye opener. A digital native is a person for whom digital technologies already existed when they were born, and hence has grown up with digital technology such as computers, the Internet, mobile phones and MP3s. This definition does not apply to me. I...

There are a few conspiracy theories revolving around 9/11. One theory suggests rogue planes carrying explosives assumed the flight paths of the real ones. Could such a complex plan work? Video found on the National Geographic YouTube channel. A conspiracy that would involve a tremendous amount of people to pull off.  Not practical but an interesting video to...