The world wide web has been around our entire lives (for millennials, that is). Many aspects of our lives are shared wirelessly to other people through various forms of social media on the internet. Recent trends show this connectivity is transferring to various technological devices as well. Known as the “Internet of Things” (IoT), machines that gather data are now communicating with each other via internet which allows the creation of new insight.
I hope this blog post scares you. This year’s election promises to be a close one, and regardless of which candidate you support, the concern of a rigged election has most likely crossed your mind. This post is the first in my series of “Jack’s Hacks,” an investigation into the security of society’s most important computer systems. For this week’s post, in order to determine if my fears of a rigged election are rational, I challenged myself to vicariously hack America’s voting system.
To do, or not to do. That is the question, and almost everyone has asked it at least once. Statistics show that procrastination affects over 20% of the human population and 95% of the student population (which is pretty accurate when I look at my own behavior).1 Procrastination is such a widespread phenomenon, but what is it? Why does it happen? And how can we avoid it?
Everyone has experienced sitting at a restaurant and wondering why their food is taking so long. That familiar red stoplight always seems determined to make you late for school or work. It only takes an extra moment of delay to makes us antsy and impatient. How do we differentiate between a moment too soon and a moment too long?
As you have probably learned from high school chemistry, combustion is the process of burning a fuel source in the presence of oxygen. You may also recall that combustion is an irreversible chemical reaction , meaning that you can’t take the ashes and smoke from a burning fire and turn them back into fuel. However, what if I were to tell you that what you learned in high school is technically false? In other words, what if there is such a thing as “reverse combustion”?!
