ChristmasSanta’s MailboxEver wondered where all those letters to Santa go? Christmas. ’Tis the season to be jolly and deck the halls with boughs of holly and everything else detailed in that carol that I can never ...
cultureThe Littlest LanguageWhat you speak is what you think. Or is it the other way round? What language do you think in? Sometimes, thoughts come into your head. Just like that. It’s only later that you put them int...
adaptationOcean LightsFireflies blink their lights. In the ocean, it’s more dramatic. Deep down in the ocean, there is no red. The ocean is so deep and so filled with water, that even light has to fight to make ...
Brain ManipulationPredatory SignalsThe kudu antelope explains how and when to eat. Have you ever wondered why you can’t eat a large amount of acacia leaves without falling sick? It’s not that your body can’t handle so much ac...
computersDrawing with LinesIntroducing vectors, the hidden arrows that make your images sharp Normally, computers don’t draw lines. They only draw dots. “Green dot,” they say, “green dot, green dot, blue dot, blue do...
BooksMoney from the FutureHow does money travel in time? Here are the details. This article is a follow-up of Time Travel: How banks make money by borrowing it from the future [https://medium.com/snipette/time-travel...
