Trail of Light

Beirut Marathon

Update: I have changed below to show the picture of the map that I ran today. Some very important things I have learned are listed below: Get more then 5 hours of sleep before a marathon especially if you have had a hectic week with 4 hours or so sleep per night Stick to eating pasta before [...]

TEDxBeirut was yesterday and it was amazing

Yesterday, I spent the whole day at TEDxBeirut the very first TEDx full day event in Lebanon. The event has been something many have been anticipating for a long time with a the usual polarity that is so much a nature of who we are. In the days leading to the event, I had wondered, [...]

A bottle in a box.

As I sit with my friends looking out through the window at the beautiful world in its elegance, simplicity and beauty, it becomes painfully obvious to me how much we have in common with those who have found in prison. Indeed we do not share their physical prison, but it seems we all share the [...]

Where did all the heroes go?

In the old days, heroes were a plenty. People found themselves inspired by those who have taken a stand against all odds and took them as role models. Those heroes, men and women alike, were normal people like everybody but they took a stand against things they saw as unjust. They were normal but somehow [...]

Common Sense … Case 1: Cell phones and Airplanes

So this a series that I am going to try and keep up that show cases some of the conclusions we can come up when we make basic common sense deductions. But first let me start by the first law in any scientific study that should guide anyone observing common sense situations A hypothesis can [...]