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If you grew up American, like me, then your typical idea of “Tropical Fruit” was bananas and the occasional kiwi. When I was a kid, Pineapples were something you rarely saw in a grocery store and mangos were something mentioned in movies or songs and I just assumed they didn’t exist for real and I [...]
Posted by Shell Harris on Tuesday, January 17, 2012 at 12:01 am
Filed under Food · Tagged Australia, Banana, cillian murphy, Don Ho, Durian, Flora of Indonesia, food, Fruit, Indonesia, Israel, Medicinal plants, Mexico, neighborhood food dispensaries, New Zealand, Passiflora edulis, Passion flower, Pear, Pitaya, Plant morphology, public transportation, Richard Sterling, Singapore, slough, Sugar-apple, Tropical agriculture
Crime does not pay, so the old saying goes, but take a look at the top ten crimes in the world today and the amounts involved and you have to admit why some decide it is far too lucrative to be bad. There are some illegal activities you will not find surprising, such as the [...]
Posted by Shell Harris on Wednesday, May 11, 2011 at 12:01 am
Filed under Crime · Tagged Abuse, Afghanistan, Africa, Argentina, Arguments for and against drug prohibition, Bolivia, brazil, Bulgaria, canada, china, Cocaine, Colombia, crimes, Economics, Ethics, Europe, European Union, former Soviet Union, Human trafficking, illegal oil, illegal oil trade, Illegal Wildlife Trading, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Mali, Mexico, Myanmar, oil, oil sales, oil-producing countries, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, peru, Philippines, Political corruption, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Smuggling, South America, South Korea, Southeast Asia, Soviet Union, Taiwan, Thailand, the Philippines, traditional medicine, Turkey, United States, USD, Utah, Uzbekistan, Venezuela
As if death was not morbid enough, many people have taken last rites to a whole new level of dreadfulness. In some cultures disposing of the corpse might mean anything from eating it up to dancing with it. Those of you who think burial and cremation are the only death rituals; please prepare yourself before [...]
Posted by Shell Harris on Wednesday, March 31, 2010 at 8:26 am
Filed under Nature, People, Photos · Tagged anthropologist, Australia, Bizarre, Buddhist monks, Burial, china, coffin, cremation, culture, cultures, dead, death, death customs, death rituals, die, dying, endocannibalism, fasting, fasting to death, funeral, funerals, Ghana, human behavior, Human Interest, India, Indonesia, Japan, Madagascar, Maharashtra, mortality, Mumbai, Napolean Changon, odd, Santhara, sky burial, Sokushinbutsu, South America, strange, Tana Toraja, Tibet, top 10 death customs, top 10 death rituals, top ten list, TopTenz, Toraja, Tower of Silence, Vimla Devi, Yanomamo
