What makes a great movie? The plot? The characters? The underlying symbolism? Well, action movies don’t generally bother too much about those, but they do have big exciting stunts. Fire! Guns! Excitement! It’s what draws people in, again and again. And the stunts just have to keep getting bigger – [...]
Following the close of the Second World War, the most destructive collection of years we’ve ever undergone as a species, humankind decided to bond their efforts in order to achieve one higher goal. This goal was of course to get a manned aircraft out of the limits of the Earths, [...]
As humans, we tend to think that we have the monopoly on this whole communication things. We’re really good at it – at least, we think we are. We certainly do it a lot. But do other species also have the capacity to use language? In the wild, animals certainly [...]
It seems like it takes a bit of luck to become the most powerful politician in the world. Certainly, the job of President comes with a side-order of superstition, from the mundane to the bizarre. Even the election process has its own superstitions including the Redskins rule – a prediction [...]
Are you looking for a new game to challenge and amuse your family and friends? Why not try bean farming? Or mixing paint? Or building power plants? Admittedly, none of those activities might sound like much fun, but sometimes game descriptions don’t do games justice. This list, put together based [...]
Our world is one of constant parallels. As all we as a species know, planet Earth has spent the last few million years undertaking a comparatively brand new adventure, of which human beings have played a leading role. Slowly spreading from our humble primitive beginnings to establish ourselves as the [...]
Since the dawn of nuclear weapons, in the mid 20th century, countries have been racing to test out their capabilities. The main “superpowers” such as the USA, UK and Russia all stopped testing in the 1990s after the end of the Cold War and signed the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty in [...]
Hollywood doesn’t do a great job of selling motels to us, does it? From “Psycho” to “Vacancy“, it’s a pretty safe bet that if you check into one of those handy roadside hotels, you won’t be checking out again. You may get tortured, stabbed in the shower or find yourself [...]
Since the dawn of photography in the latter half of the nineteenth century, much of society has been completely revolutionized. A vocation far past its humble beginnings, in terms of both capability and availability, photography has risen to become an art form in its own right. Active in all walks [...]
In America, the system of who’s in charge seems pretty simple – you vote for them. True, there are primaries and “Super Tuesdays” and other things that non-Americans find a bit baffling, but the end result is the guy with the most votes gets to move into that nice white [...]
Who doesn't love a beach vacation? The sun, the sand, the radiation...hang on, what was that last part again? Yes,...
Ever wanted to get lost somewhere? Well, there are some mazes out there where you can do just that. You...
Perhaps because of the diversity of American settlers, or perhaps because of frontier humor, towns with strange names abound in...
The concept of human imprisonment is one that has courted our species through a number of sociological ages. As the...
The world is awash with very real dangers which act to threaten the lives of the human populous on a...
The noun ‘hostage’ is defined by the Oxford English Dictionary Online as being ‘a person seized or held as security...
We humans have long been tunneling for many reasons. Ever since we realized the importance of hiding supplies and/or ourselves,...
Not much is generally known about serial killers aside from their crimes. It is widely believed, at least amongst experts,...
Leading internet sources will tell you that Paul McCartney, composer and bassist of the Beatles, lived 18 June 1942-present. But...
Childhood truly is a wonderful time in a person’s life, when the days are long and bright, the summers hot...
