Invention is a foundation of the human experience. From the wheel to the air conditioner, we are always seeking to improve our way of life through the advancement of technology. We fail at least as often as we succeed, but we remain tenacious in our endeavors. This list serves testimony [...]
We humans are a lucky race – everywhere you go, you’re bound to find more and more of us. Maybe that’s because we’ve used our higher brain functions to systemically obliterate so many other life forms. Either way, we’re one of the only species to spread right across our planet, [...]
The Academy Awards 2013 have come and gone and, as always, there were triumphant winners, bitter losers and at least one actress who may remember her win for quite the wrong reasons (more on that later). In fact, the Oscars have quite a record of awkward moments where celebrities break [...]
The resignation is probably the most rehearsed thing anyone ever writes – disgruntled employees will often write fantasy resignation letters to get them through particularly bad days. I know I wrote four different resignation letters to one crappy and low-level job – most never got handed in and one got [...]
The Amazon Rainforest is one of the world’s fascinating places. Its lush greenness is unlike anywhere else on Earth and for centuries, it has drawn travelers looking for adventure to it. Rainforests are associated with a feeling of calmness, and “Rainforest Sounds” CDs are bestsellers for anyone wanting relaxation music. [...]
They say that lightning never strikes twice in the same place, but “they” obviously know nothing. I don’t even know who “they” are. Nowadays, meteorologists tend to agree that some places are far more prone to be hit by lightning repeatedly than others. However, it’s not always the places with [...]
As Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglia of Argentina begins his service as the 266th pope of the Roman Catholic Church, taking the name of Pope Francis I, he is becoming part of a tradition dating back to the early days of Christianity. As might be expected, in those roughly 2000 years, [...]
The world is changing. You can’t have failed to notice that – global warming, ice caps melting, habitats disappearing…the world we hand down to our children and their children might be very different. As a result, there are places that you should probably put on your list to visit in [...]
Pro wrestling has long been the land of giants clashing against one another in feigned competition. What gets lost among the gladiator fights and battles with chairs, ladders and tables are the talking skills of these ring warriors. As far back as wrestling has been televised, which dates back to [...]
Do you believe in life on other planets? If you do , you’re far from alone – a survey last year revealed that 36% of Americans believed in aliens. That’s 80 million people! 10% of respondents even think they have seen a UFO themselves. Whether that’s the influence of realistic-looking [...]
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...
What makes a great movie? The plot? The characters? The underlying symbolism? Well, action movies don't generally bother too much...
Following the close of the Second World War, the most destructive collection of years we’ve ever undergone as a species,...