Empire State Building Goes LED
Tuesday November 27, 2012
The iconic Empire State Building (ESB) in New York City has switched to a computer programmable system of LED lights, and the New York City skyline just got a lot ... Read More
Teddy Bear
Tuesday November 27, 2012
How a political cartoon about Teddy Roosevelt and the story it told became popular and within a year, the cartoon bear became a toy for children called the teddy bear. ... Read More
What Did I Find?
Sunday November 25, 2012
I'm an avid purveyor of science news, articles, websites, and videos from around the web. Here are a few interesting morsels I found and I'd like to share with you. ... Read More
What Did Thomas Edison and YouTube Have in Common?
Sunday November 25, 2012
Menlo Park is what they both have in common. YouTube - the online video sharing and viewing community was invented by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim out of ... Read More
Birth of the Electric Pencil
Sunday November 25, 2012
"I am happy to greet the geniuses who made me a born-again writer, having announced my retirement in 1978, I now have six books in the works and two probables, ... Read More
Thanksgiving Day Intellectual Property
Wednesday November 21, 2012
This year (2012) Thanksgiving Day, a bit of a roving holiday, falls on November 22. Did you know that "MACY'S THANKSGIVING DAY PARADE" is a word mark? That's a registered ... Read More
Psychedelic
Sunday November 18, 2012
LSD was first synthesized on November 16, 1938 by Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann in Sandoz Laboratories in Basle, Switzerland. Sandoz Laboratories, the only company to manufacture and sell LSD. first ... Read More
The History of Google - What Are You Searching For?
Saturday November 17, 2012
Google was named after a googol - the name for the number 1 followed by 100 zeros - found in the book Mathematics and the Imagination by Edward Kasner and ... Read More
Reinventing After Sandy
Sunday November 11, 2012
Hurricane Sandy has cost Americans by estimates between 20 to 50 billion dollars in damages. Beyond doing repairs, on the table there is now prevention and improvement work necessary to ... Read More
Who Invented Liposuction?
Sunday November 11, 2012
Four doctors get the credit for founding and advancing the medical procedure know as liposuction. Doctor Giorgio Fischer, a gynecologist from Rome, Italy, invented the liposuction procedure in 1974. Doctor ... Read More
Voting Machine Patents
Tuesday November 6, 2012
History of Voting Machines
A Look at Voting Machine Patents
Twitter and Hurricane Sandy
Friday November 2, 2012
According to a report by the Desert News, "the social media platform Twitter served several positive social functions during Hurricane Sandy's assault on the Eastern Seaboard. For many of us ... Read More
Who Invented ROFL?
Thursday November 1, 2012
Need and laziness did. ROFL is short for Rolling On Floor Laughing and is part of our new way to communicate with phone texts, emails, and instant messages that forced ... Read More