Air traffic controllers are those trained professionals keeping air traffic safe by managing the flow of airplanes in such a manner that they’re never too close to each other and always sent fast to their destination. They have one of the most stressful jobs in the world and in order to […]
Once upon a time, during the reign of King Krakus, a fire-breathing dragon lived in a cave near the Vistula River in Krakow (capital of modern day Poland). The Wawel Dragon was an evil creature, every day it was ravaging the countryside killing its inhabitants, destroying their houses and eating their […]
Caller ID, also named calling number identification, is a phone service that transmits the number of the caller to the device of the person receiving it before the call is answered. Invented almost 45 years ago, it is the main method through which your phone can recognize who is calling you […]
Financial responsibility, two words that unfortunately mean nothing to a lot of people. It is my strong belief that if the majority of people would’ve been financially responsible the current recession would’ve been averted. Being financially responsible means basically to spend less than you make. Even if it sounds very simple, […]
In 2008 an Australian teenager called Corey Worthington was left home by his parents with a specific instruction: no party. Not only that Corey organized a party, it was one of the first socially organized mass parties. Because he mentioned the party on a social network it went viral and things […]
“What we wanted was flying cars, what we got was 140 characters”. It is a quote by Peter Thiel (founder of PayPal) and one of my favorite ones. I like it because it sums up very well the contrast between our past expectations regarding the future and the reality of present. […]
When most of us hear about currency we think money, because we wrongfully associate currency with money. However, these 2 notions are quite different. Currencies are elements used in an exchange system to obtain something else. They are a system to transfer value from one place to another. The people of […]
The first written evidence on the use of watchwords dates more than 2200 years ago. They were used by the Roman military for important commands. If watchword doesn’t seem familiar, you’ll recognize it for sure by its modern name, password. It’s what you might have used as a child when playing […]
In technical terms memory is a process through which your mind transforms external stimuli into storable information that can be later retrieved. The sound of ‘Honey, don’t forget the milk’ is encoded by your ears and stored up to the point where you remember it in the supermarket. Or you don’t […]
When an important event occurs our mind translates the external stimuli associated with it and stores that information to be later retrieved as memories. We nostalgically remember good memories (while trying to forget bad ones) in terms of location, time and ‘mental shots’ (our recollection of the event). Our memories define […]