You may all have heard about a powerful barbaric race known as the Vikings, whether it be from history textbooks or the scintillating TV series by the same name. These pagans and barbarians inhabited the European regions of Scandinavia, Norway, Sweden and Denmark. They were a feared and ruthless people, …
Read More »3 Potent Legal Highs that can make you go bonkers!
With the war on drugs and all, there is an immense race to ban all addictive and psychotropic substances. This has caused government officials to try to seduce the public, through both violence and through colorful prescription pills. The war on exploration of different states of mind has been started …
Read More »The Saviors of a Crumbling Structure: The TIDE Foundation
The education system today is in shambles. Don’t believe me? Well, look around you, how many “educated” people do you see? No, not those engineers, technicians, managers, and bankers that you see around. If you look closely and observe one of these specimens, you will see their mechanical movements take …
Read More »Virtual Reality and Education: Redefining Experience-based Learning Part-1
When I remember my time in school and inside the classroom, I am touched by a weird sensation that I can only describe as “nostalgic regret.” Kind of sounds paradoxically, but the nostalgia stems from the fact that there were times during classes when I actually had a lot of …
Read More »What is Reality?: A Conversational Precursor for Virtual Reality
Do you believe that what you see, feel, hear and smell is all real? Do you actually think that you are interpreting and understanding everything around you in a complete and wholesome way? Do you believe that you even know what real is? Well, if by “you”, the association is …
Read More »The Evolution of Pandemics: Is the answer within us?
The immense degree of globalization and technological advancement that is occurring across the globe nowadays is something that we have to be proud of. We are at a point in the evolution where we can marvel at the immense interconnectivity that we have achieved across the globe. We have successfully …
Read More »My Conversation with Tenochtitlan: Back in time to the Aztec Empire
Have you ever truly felt a place, felt the core emotion that the place carries and tried to listen to what it has to say, the vast repertoire of knowledge that is contained within the walls, the atmosphere and the overall ambiance of a place? It is certainly a revelatory …
Read More »Operation Jericho: The Walls Come Crashing Down!
I grip the handle nervously and for a moment, I feel the sweat trickle down my palms within my gloves. The oxygen mask and helmet make me feel a bit confined as if I am surrounded by walls which are slowly closing in around me. As soon as I feel this, …
Read More »Science with a dash of Humility: The Counter-Culture for Religion
Did you know that the word religion was born out of the Latin word “religio” which means “to bind” or “to connect.” Well, if you look at the world around us with all the madness and chaos that has been festering within societies, nations and communities, we can see that …
Read More »Through the Wooded Wonder: A Symbiotic Take on Nature and Technology
As I walked into the forest in my enchanted stupor, a certain degree of automation enveloped my body. It was like my movements were being dictated by the forest itself, as the trees slowly murmured in the wind, “This way, come along…” I kept going on a muddy, wooded path, …
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