When I was about ten years old, my dad instilled in me some of the most important knowledge known to mankind–how to make a grilled cheese. It was simplicity and beauty in the form of a sandwich, for all you…
By Nick Statt Following their performances at the SXSW festival in mid-March and a slew of other shows all throughout last week, Brooklyn-based indie four-piece Beach Fossils took the time to come out to Stony Brook on Thursday for part…
It was the February of 1985, and Robert Crease sat across the table from the Nobel Prize winning physicist Richard Feynman in his Caltech office. The subject was unification–the idea that there lies in wait a universal theory of everything.…
Either the members of Beach Fossils locked themselves up in a room with just their instruments for months on end, or the Brooklyn-based indie group was seriously holding back on the debut album. The latter is more likely, and it shines…
By Nick Statt Dusting off my Nintendo DS for a role-playing game sounded at first like an easy way to blow 35 bucks. With the dozens of hours that an RPG would require, I was apprehensive to re-spark my handheld…
By Nick Statt Some people suffer from depression so severe that therapy, medication and even standard brain surgery cannot help their condition. But a recent joint study between Brookhaven National Laboratory and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory scientists has found a…
A Thinking Computer “Do I have a soul?” I type the question with a sly smile on my face, thinking that if I press the philosophy button hard enough, the artificial intelligence program will retreat. A tiny blue line flashes…
By Nick Statt The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, or “rick” as it is commonly referred to, is comprised of a 2.4-mile tunnel underneath the small hamlet of Uptown, NY. Directly on top sits Brookhaven National Lab where some of the…
By Nick Statt Clad in what looked like a multi-thousand dollar grey and black suit, comedian Aziz Ansari strolled onto the Staller stage Wednesday night to an explosive crowd. Even Aziz himself didn’t quite know how to receive the fervor,…