Normally, I don’t post these kinds of articles, but this footage is amazing!

This year, I finally had the time to visit Oreilly’s Maker Faire in San Mateo. What a treat! There is hope for us all yet. Some of my favorites included the following self-correcting robot: more to come (I’m about to get on a plane)...

A co-worker of mine is off the grid in everything except electricity. The problem she and her husband face is a common one: the upfront cost of investing in solar technology is simply too high. As far as I am concerned, as a society, we ought to be able to leverage solar power throughout the West and the Southwest at a minimum. Really, there is no technological reason not to utilize solar power throughout the United States, except perhaps for...

Jill Taylor suffered from a massive stroke, which transformed her understanding of the brain and of the meaning life. You see, she is a brain scientist, and her personal experience of recovery gave her insights she could not have had by studying someone else’s stroke. Watch this amazing video recorded during her presentation at TED to find out what happened. You can also get the detailed story from her book, called My Stroke of Insight:...

I’m reading a fascinating book called The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science (James H. Silberman Books) on brain plasticity that describes how the human brain is able to re-map itself after damage has been done to the body or the brain itself. According to recent research, the brain can physically change and create new neural pathways and connections in response to learning or...