Engineering & Construction
Walk into any grocery store and you'll find fresh produce, frozen foods, dairy products, meat, seafood, and ready-to-eat meals waiting at the perfect temperature. It feels completely ordinary. But it wasn't always possible. Before modern refrigeration, food spoiled quickly, grocery stores were much smaller,
Curiosity
Information Isn't the Same as Curiosity Every Answer Begins with a Question. Never before has so much information been available to so many people. With a few keystrokes, we can learn the population of a city, the distance to the Moon, or the date of a historical event.
Curiosity
How Many Can You Explain? Every Answer Begins with a Question. Most of us know about far more things than we can actually explain. Take a moment and ask yourself: Why are flamingos pink? Why do clocks run clockwise? What is the Taos Hum? Why don't birds get
Curiosity
Every Answer Begins with a Question. Every major discovery in human history began the same way. Not with an answer. With a question. Someone looked at the world and wondered... Why? How? What if? Those simple questions became investigations. Those investigations became discoveries. And those discoveries opened the door to
Curiosity
We Don't Collect Answers. We Collect Questions. Every Answer Begins with a Question. Some people spend their lives collecting answers. We'd rather collect the questions. The ones that refuse to disappear. The ones that challenge assumptions. The ones that make us look at the world a
Curiosity
Every answer begins with a question. We encounter thousands of objects throughout our lives. Some have become so familiar that we stop wondering why they look the way they do. Why are elevator buttons marked with stars? Why do clocks turn clockwise? Why are school buses yellow? Why are manhole
Question Box
Every answer begins with a question. Every investigation in the Second Look Library starts the same way. With someone wondering... "Why?" Sometimes the question is about history. Sometimes it's about science. Sometimes it's about technology, society, or the natural world. Sometimes it's
Technology
Every answer begins with a question. Today we expect traffic lights to work without a second thought. Red. Yellow. Green. They quietly organize millions of vehicles every day. But there was a time when intersections depended on police officers, hand signals, and constant human attention. How did that change? In
Curiosity
Every answer begins with a question. Most of us spend our lives searching for answers. We solve problems. We satisfy our curiosity. We move on. But every so often, an answer does something unexpected. It doesn't bring the journey to an end. It opens the door to a
Curiosity
Every answer begins with a question. Throughout history, humanity has searched for answers. We have explored oceans, crossed continents, studied the stars, and uncovered remarkable discoveries. Yet some of the most interesting questions aren't hidden because they're impossible to answer. They're hidden because no