xxx In 1852, Elisha Otis introduced the safety elevator, which prevented the fall of the cab if the cable broke. He demonstrated it at the New York exposition in a dramatic, death-defying presentation in 1854. The first such passenger elevator was installed in New York City three years later, on 23 March 1857. Persons of interest in the history of elevator x 1811-0803 Elisha Otis* founder of the Otis Elevator Company – Halifax, Vermont USA (1861/49) Continue reading

Zach Elwood - Oct 4, 2024You might appreciate learning this information about Chase Hughes (of the Behavior Panel): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4t1DMxmqJOk

xxxxx The Behavior Panel started in early 2020 on YouTube, is fast becoming the leading source for learning body language and nonverbal communication. Started by Scott Rouse who teamed up with Greg Hartley, Mark Bowden, and Chase Hughes. The world’s leading behavior experts weigh in. Since xxxx An online educational group that focuses on teaching people about the science and psychology behind body language. Not easy to find anything personal about these guys, but here below is something, à la Journeys of Life: Continue reading

The title may be confusing, and that is to be expected. But our solar system really does exist in the capital area of Finland - only in miniature. And not just any miniature, but a giant one. More confusing? Well, a hobby astronomer by the name of Leo Sulamaa had a brilliant idea in the 1990’s. He wanted people to understand the distances between the different planets of our solar system to the Sun and in relation to one another. Continue reading

If you are curious about who has designed the most famous buildings in the world, look no further. The following is a list of architects with their biographical data, and - with Brown Bold - the building or area they are most known for. The links of the buildings take you usually to their Wikipedia page. 1423-0706 Antonio Manetti* mathematician/architect – Florence, Republic of Florence (1497/73) 1475-0306 Michelangelo* sculptor/painter/architect – Arezzo, Republic of Florence (1564) Continue reading

xxxxx The human body is a wondrous complex. When it comes to elements, it comprises almost entirely of mere six of them. These are: oxygen (65%) carbon (18%) hydrogen (10%) nitrogen (3%) calcium (1.4%) phosphorus (1.1%) Another five elements make up about 0.85% of the remaining mass: sulfur potassium sodium chlorine magnesium All of these 11 elements are essential elements. This article aims in no way to be a giver of any medical advice, but just raise some ideas around the notion that the body is the temple of your soul, and must be taken care of with reverence. Continue reading

One nice thing about watching old movies (or movies depicting old times) is that we get to see all those fancy car models from the past - don’t you think? Here is another way of looking at that. Let’s see what kind of cars people thru ages might have driven. Whether they drove the car themselves or just saw it passing by on the street - here’s what they might have seen. Continue reading

Ever heard of the term earworm? I bet you have! Or if you for some inexplicable reason haven’t, I bet you have had the experience, time and time again! I hadn’t heard of the term (in any language, go fathom!) as I googled for an explanation why is it so hard to get rid of a melody in my mind. Earworm? What a strange word for such a neat thing. Continue reading

Aaron & Shawn Ashmore This is a fascinating subject when it comes to people: having a twin! For those of us who don’t have a twin (most of us), and in this case, an identical twin (almost all of us), it is pretty hard to fathom that there could be someone who looks just like you. And with whom you would be so much closer in every sense of the word from the moment you are born. Continue reading

Doesn’t that’s sound a bit horrific? It is a term not necessarily known to all of us. But the phenomenon is commonplace, this erection of hairs on the skin due to cold, fear, excitement, euphoria or sexual arousal. Before that erection happens, there usually is a sudden surge of warmth throughout your body. In colloquial language, we know this phenomenon of course as goose bumps. The reason for that choice of words naturally being that our skin then looks like the skin of an unfeathered goose. Continue reading

light moves around 300 000 km in a second, whereas the speed of sound is only one millionth of it, around 330 meters per second? Based on that, there is a formula on how to count how far a lightning occurs once we know when the thunder occurs. And did you know that the person who invented the lightning rod was Benjamin Franklin? By the year 1750 Franklin - in addition to wanting to prove that lightning was electricity - began to think about protecting people, buildings, and other structures from lightning. Continue reading

Whether you believe it or not, there is ample evidence that the Earth has been visited by extraterrestrials for ages. Of course, many of us have also witnessed that, but since the mainstream media doesn’t yet deal widely with the subject, it is not “public knowledge”, but rather something that many people find something to ridicule. Yet there are hundreds of serious researchers who study these phenomena. You will see here below a list of them as well as others who can be associated with this field. Continue reading

When you think about the ins and outs of things, don’t you think there should be something out there, in the universe, living more or less like we live here on Earth, circumstances withstanding? Let’s take this from start. Logically thinking, if you’re inside a box, and knowing what you know about the world (which is very limited for all of us), you would think that there is something outside the box as well. Continue reading

we won’t be detecting - not even with the most powerful telescopes - the new Chinese space probe Chang’e 4 that just landed on the moon? The reason being of course that it landed on the other side of the Moon. The side we never see. And did you know that the video taken with the help of the most powerful telescope does get us surprisingly near this side of the Moon? Continue reading

[caption id=“attachment_4829” align=“alignleft” width=“289”]Buzz Aldrin in 1969[/caption] Twelve men have walked on the Moon, so far. The Apollo Moon landings took place between 1969 and 1972, and for whatever reason and quite surprisingly, man has not been there since. Here is anyway a list of all these twelve lunar astronauts. Of them four are still alive (as of August 2018) with Harrison Schmitt being the most recent living person to have set his foot on our satellite. Continue reading