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Lous Wain was an artist popular for his paintings of cats in the late 1800s and early 1900s. The following pictures of cats are typically interpreted as illustrating the increasing effects of his schizophrenia.

Internet advertising is a strange beast. Some of the most popular ads play directly off our insecurities – that we’re fat, that we’re lonely, or that our penis is far too small. The immediate emotional response to what basically amounts to a controlled insult online can gall you into the all important “click” of the ad.

When I was a kid, I used to wonder if everyone saw the world in the same way. We can all look at the same grass, but maybe the color I called green showed up in my brain as the color my friend called blue.

Sometimes we see things so often that we simply forget to ask “why are they like that?” For instance, let’s take a closer look at domestic animals. Dogs, cats, horses, cows, pigs – animals that we live with, and who couldn’t live without us. How exactly did they go from wild animal to tame beast?

It was the summer of 2005, and a heat wave was sweeping across Ontario. At the time I was working on my engineering degree at the University of Waterloo, and tuition was just a little steep. Fueled by a combination of too many engineering courses, too little money, and an overarching desire to not die of heatstroke before I graduated, I made my own air conditioner.

This is probably the coolest thing I’ve ever made. Even the most ADHD-addled individual, myself included, tends to go “whoa”.

Paul Statmets loves mushrooms – or more correctly, he loves fungi. His research has been called pioneering and visionary, and he’d like to share it with you.

I was browsing through YouTube and came across Dr. Altman’s “Amazing Laser Music Can” which I thought was a very impressive effect for very little money. I had a spare Sunday afternoon, and decided to make one for myself.

Fermilab (a theoretical physics laboratory) received a strange letter in code a year ago that they’ve now released to the public. I take a crack at it.

How did humans evolve from early primates? How did “human like” traits such as a smaller jaw relative to apes and hairlessness pop up when they don’t appear in the wild in any real frequency?