Month: October 2017

Suppressing Color to Make Color

Often we think of adding color (“painting or pigments”) as the only means of creating color but thanks to the neverending spectrum of light, which contains all colors, nature chose to employ nanotubes to create new colors where there were no pigments to be found. I know this sounds a bit crazy.  I swear I […]

Cannabinoid Confusion

“Note: This article is neither an endorsement or criticism of THC use. It is merely a thought exercise.” If you want a blatant “slap in the face” about how little we understand brain chemistry, do what I did. Google on over to the Scientific American website (love this magazine).  Now search for the term “THC”. […]

The Future of Energy – “Did we miss something?”

Any discussion about energy production includes the usual cast of characters: But in reading through some of the material from this years World’s Fair/Expo 2017 I got to thinking, are their viable alterative energy sources on the horizon?  I figured it was time to catch up on some reading! As a frame of reference, consider […]