Howard Engel is an accomplished Canadian novelist. One day, he had a stroke and lost the ability to read — that is, his brain could no longer process text as a fixed reference. But Engel found that he could still write, even though, shortly after writing a piece of text, he was unable to read it. So Engel devised a way to use this remaining ability to regain his literacy. Cartoonist and animator Levni Yilmaz produced this video for National Public Radio explaining how Engel was able to do it.
Since it is capable of cycling from a mature adult stage to an immature polyp stage and back again, there may be no natural limit to its life span. Scientists say the hydrozoan jellyfish is the only known animal that can repeatedly turn back the hands of time and revert to its polyp state (its first stage of life).
What’s the difference between a good idea and a great one? While the secrets to success vary, it’s become very clear that even the smartest ideas require the right infrastructure and technology to enable them. Here are some of the game-changing innovations that shaped the course of life and business in the 20th and 21st centuries.
On August 5, 1963, the United States and the former Soviet Union signed the Limited Test Ban Treaty, effectively banning the testing of all nuclear weapons except those tested underground. Atmospheric nuclear test blast photography came to an end.
And the Quote of the Day goes to the Vice President for his comments on piracy. Why? Because, according to him, pirating a movie is the same as smashing out a window at Tiffany’s and stealing stuff.
“We used to have a problem in this town saying this,” Biden told reporters at a press conference in Washington D.C. “But piracy is theft. Clean and simple. It’s smash and grab. It ain’t no different than smashing a window at Tiffany’s and grabbing [merchandise].”
