Golden Eagle Flies Off with a Goat… A Whole, Live Goat!

Wow… I’m speechless. I did not know such things existed and I really really hope never to run into one.

Fear and Panic in the the Skies

Don’t worry, that’s not a photo of a meteor that’s rocketing towards our fair planet. It’s actually a high res picture -one of the first ever- of Phobos, one of the twin moons of Mars. These pictures were captured by the Mars Orbiter recently. Phobos, you may recognize as the Greek word for “fear”. The [...]

It’s not that I’m obsessed with Tesla or anything…

I’ve made a total of twenty-two different Oddfellows now and I had to go and do research for each one of them. Now here I am putting up my second Tesla post in two days when I haven’t even put up a single story about anyone else. So what gives? Well, plain and simple, Tesla [...]

The Boy with The Incredible Brain

Last year, I was traveling in Spain and a friend of mine over there asked me if I’d heard of Daniel Tammet – an autistic British man who learned to speak Icelandic fluently in one week. As a language teacher myself, I was very skeptical. Well, my friend (who’s a language teacher himself) swore up [...]

Regenerating Human Fingers

It’s a little-known fact (outside of my personal circles) that, in addition to authoring this blog, I also sculpt all the toys for Jailbreak. What’s even less-known though, is that this sculptor lost a fingertip last summer at Burning Man. (It’s a long story involving art, bells, and helicopters but I’ll leave all that to [...]

Tesla’s Tower of Power

I came across this a while back and was amazed. Now we’re on the verge of releasing a Tesla Oddfellow, so I had to go back and read it again for some research. It’s about a project that Tesla began but never finished that essentially would have given us a wireless worldwide web (with free [...]

What’s Inside an Elephant’s Mind?

I don’t want to spoil the video because I think most of the joy comes in watching him (her?) at work. Having said that, this video does really open up some questions about how brains work and what separates us from all the rest of the animal kingdom. (Answer: less than we think!) I’m very [...]