Võ Nguyên Giáp: The Most Badass History Teacher Ever

Võ Nguyên Giáp is a Vietnam born, military genius with no formal military officer training. He led the Việt Minh to victory over the colonial forces of France and the United States between 1946 and 1975.
Giáp got his first real taste of revolution in his late teens when he enrolled in a French [...]

OnSpy: The GPS Privacy Invasion

After buying your new Cadillac, you take it out for a test drive on a windy, country road. The open sunroof provides a warm breeze that waves through your hair. You reach down to adjust the stereo and you don’t notice a bend in the road and you and your new car are [...]

Space Elevator

Here’s an abstract from a patent held by Lockheed Martin:
“A Space Elevator for transporting a payload from one point to another in outer space, includes a first structure, located at a first relatively fixed, non-zero orbital distance from the surface of the earth, for receiving payloads, a second structure, located at a second relatively fixed [...]

Michigan Affirmative Action Ban

Affirmative action is a tool used to admit students into college based on their race as an effort to level the playing ground for underpriviledged minorities and to diversify America’s universities. It has always been a controversial topic because of its labeling as racial profiling because students are being admitted into schools because of [...]

Murdering for the Masses

Two and a half decades ago, Saddam Hussein ordered the killing of nearly 200 of his own countrymen. On December 31st, 2006, he was executed by his new Iraqi government. Hussein had the nearly 200 Iraqis murdered because of their opposing religious and, consequently, political beliefs. Since then, Hussein was labeled a “mass-murderer” and “evil” [...]