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  • The History of Video Games Is Now Available Through a Digital Library

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    Catwell
    The Video Game History Foundation built a video game digital library for the public to access and study. (Image Credit: Video Game History Foundation) There are tens of thousands of video game industry ephemera files that video game enthusiasts can&...
    • 14 Mar 2025
  • Celebrating 100 Years of Women Engineers and Electricity in the Home with Electric Dreams 2024

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    Catwell
    The first issue of The Electric Age Journal published by the Electrical Association of Women in 1926. (Image credit: The Institute of Engineering and Technology) In the early 1920s, electricity became widespread across the UK and was beginning to be...
    • 17 Dec 2024
  • Researchers Claim EMF Can Enhance an Individual's Flow State in the Brain

    Catwell
    Catwell
    (Image Credit: Loaivat/pixabay) We're always looking for a shortcut to hard work. Maybe this is the one. Researchers at Laurentian University have conducted a study in which they subjected individuals' brains to EMF, enhancing flow---a menta...
    • 8 Oct 2024
  • Statue of Christa McAuliffe Unveiled at New Hampshire State House Grounds

    Catwell
    Catwell
    Christa McAuliffe gets a preview of microgravity during a flight aboard NASA's KC-135 "zero gravity" aircraft (Image Credit: NASA) On September 2nd, a Christa McAuliffe bronze statue was revealed in Concord, New Hampshire, honoring NAS...
    • 18 Sep 2024
  • Unexplained Engineering Mysteries: More Tech Utilized in the Hunt for the Loch Ness Monster

    Catwell
    Catwell
    What is “Unexplained Engineering Mysteries?” It’s simply a title for lighter side of the news articles. (The title is a bit of a misnomer. Why? Because us engineers would solve these mysteries. That’s what we do.) Image credi...
    • 2 Oct 2023
  • Unexplained Engineering Mysteries: Team Uses Surveying Equipment to Detect the Loch Ness Monster

    Catwell
    Catwell
    What is “Unexplained Engineering Mysteries?” It’s simply a title for lighter side of the news articles. (The title is a bit of a misnomer. Why? Because us engineers would solve these mysteries. That’s what we do.)   On A...
    • 29 Aug 2023
  • John B. Goodenough, Inventor Of Lithium-Ion Battery, Has Died At 100 Years Old

    Catwell
    Catwell
    Goodenough helped develop the lithium-ion battery. (Image Credit: The University of Texas at Austin) The University of Texas at Austin announced that lithium-ion battery inventor John B. Goodenough, 100 years old,  passed away on June 25th. He ...
    • 27 Jun 2023
  • WW2 Codebreakers to Be Recognized with Plaque In St. Paul

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    Catwell
    Codebreakers during the war. (via Wikicommons) On June 15th, St. Paul, Minnesota, expects to be recognized as an origin of modern computer technology thanks to WWII codebreakers. The group called the Engineering Research Associates (ERA), lasted six...
    • 16 Jun 2023
  • NASA's UAP Investigation Lackluster in Its Findings

    Catwell
    Catwell
    Experts found the evidence collected so far doesn't point to alien activity, only unidentified metallic orbs. (Image credit: NASA via YouTube) It's hard to believe we spend money of stuff like this. In June of last year (2022), NASA gathered...
    • 2 Jun 2023
  • Two High School Students Present New Proof For Pythagoras' Theorem

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    Catwell
    Two high school students presented their Pythagoras' Theorem proof on March 18th at the American Mathematical Society's Annual Southeastern Conference. (Image Credit: WWL) Two 17-year-old New Orleans high school students say they have solved...
    • 3 Apr 2023
  • Peter Scott-Morgan - The world's first human cyborg passed away at 64 years old

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    Catwell
    Peter Scott-Morgan, the world's first human cyborg, passed away after his 5-year battle with ALS. (Image Credit: Facebook/Peter Scott-Morgan) English scientist Dr. Peter Scott Morgan, the world's first human cyborg, tragically passed away af...
    • 20 Jun 2022
  • Remembering early pioneers Stephen Wilhite and John Roach

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    Catwell
    (Image credit: Getty Images) On March 14, 2022, Stephen Wilhite, Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) creator and computer scientist, passed away due to COVID-19 complications. He was 74 and in the presence of family members at the hospital. His ...
    • 28 Mar 2022
  • Pharrell Williams’ Black Ambition foundation gives $1 million to black-owned startup Livegistics

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    Catwell
    Black Ambition aims to give support and guidance to Latinx and black owned startups. Livegistics founders Andre Davis and Justin Turk. (Photo from Kai Davis) Pharrell Williams is known for his impressive musical resume. He’s worked w...
    • 4 Mar 2022
  • David Boggs, Co-inventor of the Ethernet has passed away, aged 71

    Catwell
    Catwell
    David Boggs is well-known for helping to develop the Ethernet protocol. (Image Credit: Wiki, Xerox) Heroes of modern electronics are passing away. We lost another recently. David Boggs, electrical engineer, computer scientist, and co-inventor of the...
    • 2 Mar 2022
  • Engineer at the Movies – Reviews – Justice League 2017 & 2021 — Right Arm of the Batman

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    Catwell
     Justice League from back in 2017; the movie was so terrible – I quit writing reviews after seeing it. I was so distraught with the idea of thinking about it again that I gave up.  It’s been four years. I think my mental blocks had mel...
    • 24 Mar 2021
  • TV Series and Movies for Engineers to Watch During the Pandemic

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    Catwell
     With the pandemic sweeping the globe, most non-essential workers are self-isolating, which includes us, engineers. Although free time allows us to catch up on some unfinished projects, it also allows us to binge-watch our favorite shows and mo...
    • 10 Apr 2020
  • Engineer at the Movies – Reviews – “Bob Lazar: Area 51 & Flying Saucers"

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    Catwell
    (Image credit: Jeremy Corbell via Vimeo)  Forewarning, there are spoilers ahead. Here it is, the biggest spoiler: If you plan to watch the documentary, you won’t get that hour and a half back, or your money either. Granted, I’m dubious when...
    • 31 Dec 2018
  • My Holiday Card for You All - 2018

    Catwell
    Catwell
    Click on the pic to make it bigger! Click on the pic to make it bigger!   Thank you all for a great year! Maybe by next year I'll make this tree canon a reality.  Cabe http://twitter.com/Cabe_Atwell
    • 20 Dec 2018
  • Stan Lee, Inspirational Hero, and Godfather of Marvel Comics Passes Away at 95

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    Catwell
    (Image credit: Alan Light via Wikipedia)  “I am the least scientific person you’ll ever know,” is a Stan Lee quote he gave during a PBS interview back in 2013 about the ‘Science of Comic Books’ that struck me as funny. Not ha-ha funny, but amusi...
    • 14 Nov 2018
  • Engineer at the Movies: Reviews... Won't You Be My Neighbor?

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    Catwell
    www.youtube.com/watch If you grew up in the 1960’s, 70’s, 80’s, or 90’s you already know Fred Rogers. You spent a lot of time in “Mister Roger’s Neighborhood.” I did for sure, it was my favorite kid’s show. When Fred Rogers passed away in 2003, ...
    • 22 Sep 2018
  • EatM: Reviews – Star Wars The Last Jedi – “I find your lack of montages disturbing"

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    Catwell
    (via Disney) SPOILERS, SPOILERS, SPOILERS... not many. I don't talk much about the twists and turns, but... be warned.... Two years between anthology films is a brutal wait period. It builds up anticipation beyond all measure. With it, a th...
    • 15 Dec 2017
  • Engineer at the Movies: Reviews... Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets

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    Catwell
    Valerian's poster. Looks like tons of fun to me... (via EuropaCorp) www.youtube.com/watch If you liked The Fifth Element you’ll love Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, right? Well, hold on a minute. Not everybody agrees. ...
    • 12 Aug 2017
  • Engineer at the Movies: Reviews... Spider-Man: Homecoming

    Catwell
    Catwell
    Two movie posters. I love the drawn one most. (via Marvel Entertainment) Spoilers ahead!  The Peter Parker of this film is a nerd… but he’s OK with the label. I love this. No longer is he a sad sack or tortured soul superhero. It’s imp...
    • 7 Aug 2017
  • Engineer at the Movies: Reviews… Alien: Covenant

    Catwell
    Catwell
    (Images via and TM of Twentieth Century Fox)  It’s hard not to feel letdown by sci-fi these days. Ghost in the Shell, Life, Passengers, Transformers The Last Knight, all glorious looking wastes of time. To add to that, these films are ...
    • 12 Jul 2017
  • Engineer at the Movies: Reviews… Transformers The Last Knight (2017)

    Catwell
    Catwell
    (Spoilers ahead)  It’s nonstop angry people in this film. The Autobots are angry. The military is angry. Science people are angry. Every main human character is angry. The Decepticons are, of course, angry. Even a new polite-butler rob...
    • 2 Jul 2017
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