Tag: Star Wars

This First Transgender Doll Aims to Educate Kids About Gender Identity

To an adult, a child's toy may appear to be nothing but a colorful piece of plastic that clutters the lounge room floor. But in reality, a simple toy can be an incredibly powerful educational tool for the young minds that engage with them. That's why a toy manufacturer in Canada has developed Sam, the world's first transgender doll. Sam is designed to educate, not...

This New Digital Urn Makes us Approach Death in a Radically Different Way

The traditions of burial and cremation after death are near universal practices that have come to be recognized as fundamentally human signs of respect for our dead. We have buried our dead for over 100,000 years and traditions of cremation stretch back 20,000 years; these are ancient signals of love, empathy, and belief in afterlife utterly unique to our species and culture. However, as...
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The Force is Strong With This Japanese Airline’s ‘Star Wars’ Boeing 787

I'm thinking that Japan's All Nippon Airline had some inside knowledge about the drop of the new "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" trailer. The...

‘Happy’ Makes Its Way To A Far Off Galaxy With A ‘Star Wars’ Parody

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, Pharrell Williams brought the Force to the planet of Tatoonie with "Happy." Pharrell's monster...

Light Sabers No Longer Nerd Fiction, Harvard and MIT Just Made a Real One

We're all getting light sabers for Christmas! Okay, maybe that's a jump, but some folks at the Harvard-MIT Center for Ultracold Atoms created a...