Games Exercise Complex Mental Skills Hard-Wired in Our DNA That We Don’t Fulfill in Daily Lives

One of my hypothesis on why games are not only useful as learning tool for mammals (lion cubs practice hunting skills by play fighting for example) but that serve as entertainment to children and adults, specially in the modern world, is that they activate exercise neurological pathways for problem solving that we don’t normally come […]

The Retreat

Lucas had grown up with the victories of Napoleon. France was the one center of enlightenment in a cold world of monarchical rule. France had murdered it upper class when they refused to give up their aristocratic tittles and opened up career positions to talent. For this was the notion of equality: Every man has […]

The Good Man

Mark stared deeply in the mirror and gazed into a face he didn’t recognized. His bright blue eyes had become dull, his dark hair was now white. Wrinkles now covered a saggy face which once had been youthful. He cringed, but he stared nonetheless. “This is reality” he thought, “this is what I’ve become, it’s […]

An Atheists Promise

Josh had a vague memory of his mother, he seems to recall her in the kitchen baking something, telling him not to make a mess as he licked the spoon she used to stir the mix for a chocolate cake. The details are not clear to him. He remembers her reading to him before bed […]

Baking Calculator

A friend of mine going to culinary school asked me if I could make a calculator for one of his recipes. The goal was that based on the amount of bread used the rest of the ingredients would auto-populate.  I just worked one out in a few minutes, this is what it looks like:   […]