In this fun essay from Scott Sadil over at Gray’s Sporting Journal, he shares a story about the intricacies of how us fly fishers choose to reel in our lines.  There’s more to the story than you might think, and it’s a fun read. You’ll find the story here. The post Essay: ‘Left or Right?’ |

Author: Scotty Hendricks / Source: Big Think Big Think and Lumina Foundation are joining together to identify and help scale leading innovations in education after high school. We are looking to introduce social entrepreneurs with the most innovative solutions in post-high school education to the

Author: Scotty Hendricks / Source: Big Think In 1848, Edgar Allan Poe wrote a book outlining his theory of everything. Modern readers will find many familiar concepts, including the Big Bang and multiple universes. While it has little real scientific merit, it does have a solution to Olbers’

Author: Maria Popova / Source: Brain Pickings “Life and Reality are not things you can have for yourself unless you accord them to all others,” Alan Watts wrote in the early 1950s, nearly a quarter century before Thomas Nagel’s landmark essay “What Is It Like to Be a Bat?” unlatched the study of

It’s a time-honored tradition of students everywhere – pulling an all-nighter to complete that paper that has been hanging around your neck for weeks, just before time. These days work is usually submitted online, so all that needs to be done after your caffeine-fueled nightmare is a simple