Your toolbox filled with wrenches and screwdrivers, if regularly used, can make you a better thinker. Manipulating mechanical objects, turning them around, fitting pieces together and watching the parts move, will exercise and expand your brain in ways your non-mechanical friends can't imagine because it anchors you to the real world, where things either work or they don't, … [Read more...]
Bob the Builder Gets All the Breaks
Do you know Bob? Bob likes to work with his hands. He’s really curious, too. He’s always looking inside devices of all sorts, constantly tearing through those “no user serviceable parts inside” tags, to figure out how they work, voiding most of his warranties along the way, to his wife's dismay, but, though he's had a few close calls, he never seems to really break anything. … [Read more...]
Scrap Metal Art by James Corbett
One man's junk is another man's art, at least it can be with a little work and a good eye. James Corbett of Australia is the latest example of an artist working in scrap metal and his pieces are pretty sweet. He uses parts of old cars to create all sorts of machines, animals and people and I think his metal work would look good on display most anywhere gearheads congregate. You … [Read more...]
Can Motorcycle Riding Strengthen Old Bones? – Ride Forever for Your Health
When your wife says, "You're too old to ride motorcycles, you might get hurt," just smile and say "Honey, I'm doing this for you so I can build up my bones." No, really. The science is on your side. A daily dose of whole body vibration is good for you. A daily dose of whole body vibration may help reduce the usual bone density loss that occurs with age, Medical College of … [Read more...]
Where Good Ideas Come From – the Natural History of Innovation
Ideas. Everything we do, everything we build, everything around us not found in nature begins with an idea. When you think about it that way, improving our idea generating skills would seem to be a good idea in itself. Steven Johnson decided to dig into the process, examining some of the biggest and best ideas we humans have had, to see what clues they left behind. While we … [Read more...]
Why Do You Ride?
Why do you ride? "If I have to explain it, you wouldn't understand." That's the all too often non response given by some riders in an effort to sound profound or philosophical, but it doesn't answer the question, does it? Maybe it's a question best left unanswered because it's really an emotion without any reason behind it, trying to analyze your attraction to motorcycles, the … [Read more...]
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