Ebooks are great, but browsing them is still not that great of an experience. People like to go to physical bookstores and libraries because they can browse the books using all of their senses, not just the visual sense. Even the visual sense in online bookstores is impaired—you only get scaled-down two-dimensional information through your […]
Jim Wynn
Status: Retired Hero Standing at a relatively small 5’9″, Jim Wynn was nicknamed “The Toy Cannon” because he had a lot of “pop” in his bat despite his small size. In fact, he had so much pop in his bat that if not for the long outfield fences of the Astrodome, he probably would have […]
Ignoring the Warning Signs
The sign outside the store said, “NOTICE: NO PROPANE CYLINDERS ALLOWED INSIDE.” Jaysen had always wondered why propane cylinders weren’t allowed in the store, until the one fateful day when he had a little too much to drink, and the mischievous devil who sat on his shoulder whispered a little too loudly in his ear. […]
Exercise-powered Gym
If you can spin a turbine, you can generate electricity. Conversely, anything that spins can be harnessed for electricity. That’s spinning windmills. Spinning water wheels. Spin class. Wait, what? Spin class? Yes, those spinning wheels on your stationary bike can be used to harness electricity. What if you could power an entire gym purely by […]
Buster Posey
Status: ACTIVE HERO Buster Posey led the San Francisco Giants to three World Series victories. He is one of the best hitting catchers of all time and even won the National League batting title in 2012. A 2011 home plate collision with Scott Cousins led to the MLB adopting rule 7.13, known colloquially as the […]
Location-specific Domains
Just about every habitable location on Earth has a property owner. With property ownership, the person or organization is entitled to the rights of the land in the real world. But now we have a metaverse, which is the virtual world existing on the internet. Perhaps every property owner should also have rights to a […]