The Inner Monologue

Oh, humanity. You adorable, self-important little time-blip. You really think your favorite song/movie/trendy hat will last forever? That future generations will still gasp in awe at the sheer brilliance of insert thing you currently adore here? Bless your heart. Let’s get real: Nothing you love will survive. Oh sure, maybe for a little while. Your…

Introduction: The Book of Earth Imagine if Earth’s entire 4.54-billion-year history were written in a book, where each page equals one year. Now, flip through it. The last few pages contain all of human civilization. The rest? A vast, ancient story where entire ages pass between chapters. The Earth-Book: A Journey Through Time 1. The…

Ladies, gentlemen, and patriots clinging to their “Made in China” fanny packs like the hypocrites they are—gather ‘round. The politicians have done it again. They’ve cracked the code, solved the riddle, and unearthed the one true path to restoring American greatness: forcing you to buy garbage at gunpoint. Introducing the Make America Buy American Again…

Oh, sure, we know being organized is good for us. We’ve heard it a thousand times—from productivity gurus, from that one annoyingly tidy friend, from our own guilty conscience as we dig through a junk drawer for the third time this week. But let’s say it anyway: Getting your act together is one of the…

In 2014, I made a prediction about the future of computer interfaces: Now, in 2025, let’s revisit this forecast—was it accurate, or did AI take a different path? The Prediction: AI Would Ask for Help Like a Toddler The core idea was that computer vision wouldn’t be perfect—instead of always guessing, AI would actively seek…

For decades, the dominant theory of human evolution claimed that our ancestors evolved on the open savanna, developing traits like bipedalism and big brains to survive in a harsh, dry landscape. But what if this story is wrong? An alternative idea—the Semi-Aquatic Ape Hypothesis (SAH)—suggests that many uniquely human features emerged not on the grasslands,…

Ah, the utility bill—a cryptic scroll of nonsense charges designed to make you question your life choices. You open it each month, squint at the numbers, and think, “Did I really use $150 worth of… whatever this is?” Let’s break it down so you can stop blindly paying for things you don’t understand (and probably…

Let’s be real: some songs have aged like milk left in the sun, and yet they still shamble onto playlists like Grandpa at a skate park—clueless, out of place, and kind of embarrassing. Take Sugar’s “Hair”—a whole song about how dangerous it is to have long hair because people might, I don’t know, challenge you…

In 2014, I envisioned a radical shift in the concept of motorhomes and long-distance travel: Now, in 2025, with just five years left until 2030, how accurate does this prediction look? Prediction #1: Autonomous Motorhomes Will Redefine Travel 🚗 The Vision (2014): Imagine a luxury pod on wheels—a self-driving RV where you sleep, work, and…

Imagine looking up at the night sky and realizing that everything you see—the stars, galaxies, and cosmic wonders—makes up less than 5% of the universe. The rest? A cosmic enigma: dark matter and dark energy, two invisible forces shaping the fate of everything. Scientists have known about them for decades, yet we still don’t fully…