The Brain Is a Sexual Ornament
Some say that everything we do is just an excuse to get laid. As it turns out, human brains are wildly inventive in their attempts to get us to have sex and fulfill their evolutionary destiny. I mean, a human brain invented Twitter, didn’t it? Geoffrey Miller’s fabulous book, The Mating Mind, proposes that every…
An Introduction To The Mechanical Watch
The mechanical watch is one of the few remaining practical, day-to-day items that has remained unchanged in many ways since its inception hundreds of years ago. Of course, materials and production methods have come a long way since the seventeenth century, but if you crack open a modern mechanical watch, you’ll find something that looks…