One of the aspects of life that has fascinated me most in the recent years, is how people deal with rules and laws. And how these rules and laws are embedded in us since childhood. In the next few posts I want to examine why some of us are able to get away with murder, while others do not. And I want to explore how effective they are at maintaining order and if there is a better way. At the risk of pointing out the obvious, our principles...

But in the 60s, at the height of the cold war between the US and Russia, its importance rivaled that of the pilots of our very own spy planes. Before satellites, one of the ways states spied on each other was through high-altitude spy planes. The Cuban missile crisis has come and gone, thankfully, but the US continues to use the Dragon Lady spy plane.

The fight took place over the weekend, June 1, for the unification of the Heavyweight Boxing Title of the World. For this fight, Anthony Joshua and Andy Ruiz were contending to unify the WBA (Super), IBF, WBO and IBO heavyweight titles. The fight only lasted 20 minutes (less 7 full rounds) and by the time it was over, a chubby kid was the new Champion. Watching the two fighters side by side prior to the fight, only Ruiz’s family and coach could have believed he’d win.

Back in 2006, there was a documentary called "El Ataque de los Niños" (The Attack of the Children). The documentary focused on a new generation of kids that were coming through the ranks into MotoGP; Dani Pedrosa, Jorge Lorenzo and Casey Stoner. Those three "Children", had cleaned up the smaller classes of the MotoGP championship on their way to the Premier category, MotoGP. At that time, the king of the MotoGP, and for a few years thereafter, was the flamboyant Valentino Rossi. When the "Children" entered the premier...

If you said Lithium, which has half the density of water, you'd be wrong. The answer is graphene aerogel, which holds the world record as the least dense solid.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a broad term used for intelligence that is non-biological (machine intelligence). AI is made up of various disciplines, one of them is Machine Learning (ML). Machine learning is one of the most common forms of AI to which we are normally exposed. When you use your phone and ask it a question, your phone is using ML (and natural language processing) to provide you the best answer it has learned. Typing corrections, which are tailored to your typing habits, are also a result of...

My battle with Pertussis ended about 2 months ago. It seems like a long time, but it also feels like yesterday. For the past 2 months I have enjoyed pretty good health. I've even gone back to working out without a coughing fit. The other day I caught a cold from my kid and I was so afraid. On the one hand, I knew it was just a cold because my kid shook it off like nothing (when pertussis hit us both, my kid took almost as long...

It has become almost a non-issue these days for large companies to announce a security breach that resulted in bad actors obtaining customer data. And in almost all cases, the data obtained by the bad actors is user-identifiable data such as email address and passwords. Today, Flipboard announced they were hacked since the middle of 2018 until recently. Findings from the investigation indicate an unauthorized person accessed and potentially obtained copies of certain databases containing Flipboard user information between June 2, 2018 and March 23, 2019 and April...

As a US citizen, there are only two truths in life, death and taxes. While living in the US, we are taught, through our parents and practice, that taxes are a pain. Few can argue that taxes in the US are not a pain. And they are more of a pain if you live in a state which also has an income tax (I'm looking at your California). So we were both surprised and relieved to see how taxes were done in Spain. First, I'll share the pain,...

Much has been made about the recent Huawei ban by the Trump administration. It is mostly the headlines that are making their way to people with very little in the form of the reasons behind them. Because of the size of Huawei, the ban's consequences come from different news sources. For example, you may hear "Huawei Android phones banned", or "Huawei 5G banned in the US", or "Huawei Matepro laptop banned". As a reader what are you to think? First, the ban is not against Huawei products. It...