The Marshall family was no ordinary family. Rick Marshall, a brilliant scientist passionate about exploring the unknown, had dedicated his life to studying time and space anomalies. His expertise and groundbreaking research caught the attention of a clandestine organization known as the Temporal Exploration Agency (TEA). As fate would have it, the …

A relatively large proportion of the early backcountry immigrants were Ulster Scots—later known as "Scotch-Irish", a group mostly originating from southern Scotland and northern England, who were seeking cheaper land and freedom from Quaker leaders, many of whom considered the Scotch-Irish "savages". In Scotland, the term "hill-folk" referred to pe…

What you are experiencing, right now, is not real. How we perceive moving through time is a coping mechanism our brains have developed to bring the vast stream of information into a singular understanding of temporal continuity, this is referred to as “Persistence of Vision” In this context, we can interpret the early motion studies and cinematic i…

Swiss physician Johannes Hofer coined the term Nostalgia in his 1688 medical dissertation, from the Greek nostos, or homecoming, and algos, or pain. The disease was similar to paranoia, except the sufferer was manic with longing, and feelings of anxiety and emptiness. It was considered similar in diagnosis to melancholy, except specifically directe…

The ship of Theseus, also known as The Theseus paradox, is a thought experiment that raises the question of whether an object that has had all of its components replaced remains fundamentally the same object. The paradox is most notably recorded by Plutarch in Life of Theseus from the late first century. What is our identity? How do we know who or …

In the allegory "The Cave", Plato describes a group of people who have lived chained to the wall of a cave all their lives, facing a blank wall. The people watch shadows projected on the wall from objects passing in front of a fire behind them and give names to these shadows. The shadows are the prisoners' reality but are not accurate representatio…

The technique was dubbed the Gateway Experience by the secret CIA program and was essentially described as a training system to bring enhanced strength, focus, and coherence to the amplitude and frequency of brainwave output between the left and right hemispheres that would alter the consciousness, pushing it outside the physical space, escaping re…

Are ghosts echoes of the past? If we look at them that way we could also conclude that seance is a way to conjure the echoes of those who have been captured by the mentalist or channel conjuring knowledge and feelings transmitted from the past, giving them a voice. Likewise, when we train AI, we capture the knowledge of countless individuals into a…

On August 21, 1945, the plutonium core produced a burst of neutron radiation that led to physicist Harry Daghlian's death. Daghlian made a mistake while performing neutron reflector experiments on the core. The core was placed within a stack of neutron-reflective tungsten carbide bricks and the addition of each brick moved the assembly closer to cr…