In 2016 comedian Ben Ward, whose Twitter handle is @pixelatedboat, tweeted out the following: Thus, "Milkshake Duck" is a meme defined by Dictionary.com as "a person (or thing) who becomes extremely popular on the internet for some positive reason, but as their...

Key fobs for remotely locking/unlocking car doors are standard equipment at this point and keyless ignitions using key fob recognition is now standard in over 60% of new car models according to Edmonds. Future generations won't know that we used to use actual keys to...

Quick - who looks more competent?* In a study from 2007 Princeton researchers showed volunteers pictures of people for just a split second. The pictures were of candidates in governor and senate races in other parts of the country. So, for instance, the volunteers...

Ben Franklin was a polymath and all-around pretty amazing guy. He helped draft the Declaration of Independence, was the first Postmaster General, was a scientist, inventor, politician and diplomat. According to History.com, "Benjamin Franklin is the only founding...

Beans (legumes) are amazing. Technically they are a starchy vegetable but packed with protein - about 15g of protein per cup. Here are some of the health benefits: Beans are packed with vitamins and nutrients, including copper, folate, iron, magnesium, potassium, and...

Where is Our Excess Leisure Time? In 1930, celebrated economist John Maynard Keynes published the essay Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren wherein he predicted that in 100 years the economy would become so productive due to increases in technology that the...

"Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders." -William Faulkner, Light in August Memory is a complex thing. Hours, days and years fly by in our present, but the vast majority of our experience is lost to...

Patient undergoing TMS treatment My 17-year old daughter Audrey has struggled with depression and OCD for years. Many different combinations of antidepressants (with all their associated side-effects) have been tried over the years with limited effect. We've tried...

Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant Three Mile Island The Three Mile Island accident was a near meltdown of a nuclear reactor in which over 30,000 gallons of radioactive water escaped. The 1979 incident almost had Chernobyl like consequences as a complete meltdown...

The Mandela Effect is the popular name for the phenomenon where large groups of people erroneously remember something that didn't actually happen. It is called the Mandela Effect because even though Nelson Mandela died in 2013, large swaths of the population claim to...

As we are all aware, life expectancy has increased globally over the last few hundred years in dramatic fashion. Improvements in water, sanitation, medical technology, food distribution and wealth, among others, have increased the average life expectancy at birth in...

James Earl Jones has a super low voice (about 85 Hz vs. the average male's 125 Hz) Does the pitch of your voice have an affect on career success? It might. For males, having a deep sounding voice confers an advantage. Studies have found that males with deeper voices...