In my own creative universe, characters like the Coca-Cola Man and Waffle Hero represent a vision of futuristic technology woven into storytelling. Advanced suits capable of destroying germs on contact, systems of marketing and communication far beyond what we see today, even beyond the suits currently produced by NASA or SpaceX. Creating these characters forced [...]
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Shortly after the death of Nikola Tesla in January 1943, officials from the U.S. government, specifically the Office of Alien Property Custodian, with FBI involvement entered and examined his hotel room at the New Yorker Hotel. Trunks filled with papers, notes, sketches, and devices representing decades of work were seized and cataloged. This occurred during [...]
Ever since I was a child, I have been fascinated by the shape of snowflakes. I remember one particular snowfall clearly. I had just purchased a brand-new black ski jacket, and the snow was falling so softly that the individual flakes caught my attention as they landed on my arms. I stood there staring at [...]
For centuries, archaeologists and museum curators have described torcs (also spelled torques) as little more than decorative status symbols—twisted neck rings worn by ancient warriors and elites across Iron Age Europe. But what if we’ve misunderstood their purpose entirely? What if these heavy metal collars weren’t just about showing off power—but generating it? Let’s reevaluate [...]
It was 1992, in Oaxaca, Mexico. As i already mentioned in my first blog after receiving an invitation from my mother’s mother, (my abuelita) our family decided to visit her in Mexico for what she called a “Much needed reunion .” That summer was spent meeting our entire extended family on both my father’s and [...]
There are some things that only one soul is meant to see. Long before Dick Fosbury stood on the Olympic podium in 1968, before the world called him a genius, or strange, or revolutionary he was a teenage boy in Medford, Oregon, failing at something everyone else seemed to do well. The scissors jump. The [...]
In the year 1900, the French Academy of Sciences quietly accepted one of the most unusual bequests in scientific history. It came not from a prominent physicist, inventor, or explorer, but from a grieving mother in Paris—Madame Guzman, who had lost her son, Pierre, a young amateur astronomer with dreams fixed on the stars. In [...]
One cannot talk about any Jetson theories without reflecting on history. Sixty-two years later, many futuristic concepts they animated have come true. We viewers saw flat-screen televisions, smartphones, robotic vacuums, and even humanoid robots. That’s a pretty impressive prediction for a cartoon. Everything about The Jetsons was a depiction of things “soon to come.” How [...]
1893 Chicago World’s Fair They called the 1893 World’s Fair the Columbian Exposition. Honoring the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus’s voyage to the Americas, this incredible event showcased a new horizon of discovery. Nikola Tesla’s elongated figure stands in contrast against the “White City,” as Chicago’s World’s Fair is nicknamed for its astonishing neoclassical architecture [...]
An Incredible Coincidence I became very observant during 2020. The ongoing pandemic created opportunities for problem solvers. A legendary physician Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis came to mind quite often during this period. In 1846 women were dying from puerperal fever commonly known as childbed fever during childbirth, the good doctor set out to find an answer […]
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