The New York Time’s Touching Homage to Leonard Nimoy + The Origin of the Vulcan Salute [Videos]

Watch as The New York Times pays a touching homage to the great man… and the great actor. Also, I’ve included a video (below) where he explains the origin of the Vulcan salute Leonard Nimoy, the sonorous, gaunt-faced actor who won a worshipful global following as Mr. Spock, the resolutely logical human-alien first officer of […]


Mr. Spock Was Once a Teenage Outcast: Here’s His Advice to a Troubled Young Lady [Pic]

As I’m sure you all know by now, Leonard Nemoy has passed away earlier today. In honor of this great man, here’s some advice he sent to a troubled young lady in the May 1968 issue of the teen magazine FaVE. (second part below, in the middle column.) [Source: My Star Trek Scrapbook | Via]

Photomath: The App That Does Your Math For You

I look at the Photomath app, and I get very sad. Not that it will make future generations stupid or any such nonsense. No, I am mad that it didn’t exist while I struggled through algebra. That was essentially a semester I spent barely treading water, and knowing this would exist one day would’ve eased […]

10 Essential Animated Movies That Are Absolutely Not for Kids

The wonderful thing about the medium of animation is, even though it caters to kids visually, animated movies can be aimed at adults and children. Not all animated films feature cute, fuzzy animals getting into hilarious hi-jinx. Some feature them being ripped apart and raging war against one another, like Watership Down. Something I touched […]

For the Adventurous: Mix Your Coke with Milk Because Science

So there is a ‘thing’ going around the interwebz right now about mixing coke with milk and what happens as a result. I, myself, am not sure it is something I would ever want to do, but apparently it is the “Coke and Mentos” of 2015. It is a reaction of the Phosphoric Acid contained […]