Brian Weiner

Since the dawn of humanity, we have shared stories and experiences with the expectation of delivering others a range of emotions. Tribal wisdom, medical knowledge, understanding of the dangers that threaten our existence and many other topics are the recurring subjects that appear in these discussions, century after century. Some…

Marie Curie was a Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first person and the only woman to win the Nobel Prize twice, and the only person to win the Nobel Prize in two…

I picked this banal quotation for a very particular reason. This striking movie star may be most well known for her starring roles in the 1940s Oscar nominated films Algiers and Sampson and Delilah, but it is her technical mind that is her greatest legacy. Hedy Lamarr filed the patent…

In times of old, mariners would board a ship and venture off into the ocean on quests of glory. Can you actually fathom that? Teams of people cut down trees, treat the wood, convert the wood into vessels that float, and make them sea-worthy to take on the most intense…

Is the average person capable of participating in self government? In a rush to escape any form of authoritarian rule, there is an equally dangerous presumption that the will of the people should determine everyone’s outcome. All of us have watched an interview on the news that leaves us scratching…

Cerebral Saturday. What are we? Are we trillions of DNA strands manifesting into complex organisms that have evolved over the millennia out of the primal ooze? Are we celestial beings traveling in a three dimensional corpal vessel? Are we a recurring being that reincarnates lifetime after lifetime with some higher…

Appreciation and gratitude are unquestionably two of the most valuable human experiences one may ever encounter. One of my best friends got me in the habit of waking up in the morning and allowing a few minutes at the top of every day for nothing but gratitude. The act was…

What exactly is true wisdom? In a world of perceptual reality, I think the difference between wisdom and reality is how a person is able to grasp reality and process it. When we are young and in school, it feels as if knowledge is being crammed into our head at…