A Glove That Teaches You Piano in an Hour

Have you ever thought about how people may learn in the future? What might a school look like? And don’t forget that schools are not just for kids. Perhaps a new kind of learning might also be part of, say, a soldier’s rehabilitation process? If...

Happy 2023

2022 was… unusual, for sure. We’ve seen the end of COVID, only it wasn’t really an end now, was it? At least the economy has recovered following the ruinous crises of past years… or so I’d love to say, except it hasn’t. Well, maybe...

Merry Christmas 2022

Thank you all for being a part of my writing journey! I wish you the merriest of Christmas and the happiest of New Years!

Happy Thanksgiving

I know I haven’t been terribly active lately. If you’ve stuck around despite that, you have my gratitude! I’m grateful for you 🙂

Top 5 Fiction Books Dedicated to Cars

Car owners are well aware of the fact that a car is more than just a means of transport: it can have its own character, story, and destiny. This is why so many writers took inspiration from the image of the automobile and embodied it in their works. How about cars...

LaMDA: A Sentient AI?

In case you missed the news, a Google engineer called Blake Lemoine believes that LaMDA, the company’s AI, has already achieved sentience. Lemoine has since been fired from Google for going public with his belief, thus violating the company’s...

WoW and Cross-Faction Gameplay

If you’re anything like me, you may have started your fascination with fantasy thanks to games. World of Warcraft (WoW) is probably the best-known one, letting you play online with your friends, form factions, and fight both other players and non-player...

Neither Lazy, Nor Sick

Having gone from posting once every other day to twice a month, you may be excused for wondering if I’m turning increasingly lazy or if something worse has happened. Thankfully, all is well but I do confess to being somewhat exhausted. Between writing and...

The World’s First Tik Tok War

War has once again broken out. And Mike Elgan has an excellent report on what makes this one so different from all previous ones. As he points out, when the US invaded Iraq twenty years ago with the intention of removing Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein and installing a...

Are Animals Multilingual?

I am multilingual and consider myself a native Greek and English speaker. People like Ziad Fazah, born in Liberia, famously speak a total of 59 world languages. Can other creatures share that ability, though? Specifically, can dogs understand more than one language?...