Tag: Greatest

The NBA (National Basketball Association) founded in 1946 has contained the best current and past players that have ever played the game of basketball. Everyone who is ever played basketball or knows even something about this sport always debates, “Who is the Goat”… an age-old deb...

What makes a Roman emperor either good or bad? Do we reward the emperors who had military prowess and kept the enemies of Rome subdued over emperors who chose a policy of peace? How do we rate emperors from different eras? Should we judge emperors solely on their accomplishments during their lifetim...

Every year there are many things that are discovered that puzzle even the brightest of minds, from a 2000 year old Computer to gigantic drawings in the middle of a desert, the world is full of surprises. 1, Nazca Lines Image Source: Wikimedia commons No one knew these mysterious drawing...

Barnacles hold a surprisingly significant place in the history of natural science. For over a century, these organisms puzzled some of the most renowned biologists, challenging their understanding of the natural world. Among them was Charles Darwin, who found himself engrossed in a lengthy study ...

The most challenging thing I’ve ever done was to accept I was old. Even though I was on Social Security and Medicare and was 68, I resisted. I clung to middle age like a drowning man clings to a life preserver. I refused to be categorized as old and subjected to ageism. I didn’t want ...

Einstein’s work continues to endure on a number of other fronts as well, including on paradoxes in quantum entanglement (the EPR paradox), on connecting two well-separated points in spacetime through wormholes (Einstein-Rosen bridges), and in describing the statistics of integer-spin particles...

While there are many ways you can make changes to lead a healthier life, it’s now well-documented that the figures that change less readily are the most valuable of them all. In other words, the ones you have to work for over months, years, and decades. There’s no mistake wh...

Thank you Ben Franklin and Thomas Jefferson, George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. You set the stage. And Americans of African ancestry, mixed with the Natives and the Europeans, made it a great one. Frederick Douglas. Paul Robeson. Martin Luther King Jr., Louis Armstrong. Jimi Hendrix, John Col...

If you wandered to my profile, you’ll note I have only 40ish followers. Yet some of my articles have more than a thousand views and many comments. Now, why I don’t do the follow-for-follow game? Two problems, I don’t think that’s how it’s supposed to work. My job ...