When I was first asked to contribute to Warp News although I tried not to show it, my reaction wasn’t 100 percent positive.On the one hand, I agreed with the concept of Warp News, providing optimistic news to counter-balance the predominance of negative news...
"Football training starts in 45 minutes. How long before you have to leave then?" I shout to the 9-year-old. "In 35 minutes," he calls back, a little distracted."That sounds a bit too opt…" I bite my tongue. "It's...
Earlier this year, both Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos launched their own spacecraft, which was met by a variety of reactions. Space enthusiasts such as myself found it incredibly exciting. It was two small launches among the countless others, perhaps, but also a...
People are not good at either the very big or the very small. We are made to work in the middle.For example, we only see a small narrow strip in the middle of the electromagnetic spectrum and only hear frequencies between 20 and 20,000 hertz, even though we can...
Summary📉 What people thinkIn general, we do it without thinking: buy stuff. Small and large, most of us take pleasure in buying and owning everything from houses and cars to clothes and books. That's just what you do, buy and own most of what's...
On June 8, 1959, the American submarine Barbero fired a cruise missile, the Regulus, just off the Atlantic coast. The target was the Marine Airport in Mayport, Florida. 22 minutes later, the missile hit its target. But it did not explode. Shortly afterward, the...