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The Middle Ages were truly not for the faint of heart. Most people were peasants and dirt poor. They lived short, brutal existences, and the peasants had few rights to speak of. And did we mention the torture? I’m not talking about waterboarding here. This stuff was brutal. Some people got really creative in figuring [...]
Posted by Shell Harris on Thursday, February 9, 2012 at 12:01 am
Filed under History · Tagged brazen bull, breaking wheel, breast ripper, Crimes against humanity, horrible device, implaing, Joseph Pickett, Judas cradle, knee splitter, metal bull, Morality, Pain, paralysis, rat torture, spanish inquisition, steel spikes, torture, torture devices, torture rack, violence, vlad the impaler
Nowadays, nobody plays board games unless they’re out of alcohol and the Xbox is broken—those simple diversions of paper and plastic just can’t hold our attention in a modern world full of entertainment that’s flashy and action packed. Also, all board games are seemingly designed to produce nothing but anger, misery and broken relationships. Here [...]
Posted by Mark Hill on Wednesday, June 22, 2011 at 12:01 am
Filed under Games · Tagged Australia, bank, Battleship, best board games, Board game, board game drama, board games, Boardwalk hotel, candy land, Diplomacy, fights over board games, fun, game night, Games, games for game night, gaming, iphone, Lady Gaga, Mark Hill, Mastermind, Monopoly, Pain, Parcheesi, Pictionary, player, Recreation, Risk, Scrabble, The Settlers of Catan, Twister, worst board games
Most of us are familiar with the dangers of illegal drugs. Along with the risk of addiction, severe health problems and other unwanted side effects, there is also the danger that a drug user will face punishment if caught. Depending on the drug and area, this punishment can involve anything from a warning to a [...]
Posted by Shell Harris on Monday, May 23, 2011 at 12:01 am
Filed under Crime, Health · Tagged alcoholism, Alexander Shulgin, Bayer, Coca-Cola, Controlled Substances Act, Desoxyn, Food and Drug Administration, heroin, Laudanum, mild depression, Morphine, morphine users, narcolepsy, Native American Church, Opioids, Opium, Pain, pharmaceutical, Psychedelics, Psychoactive drug, psychologist, psychotherapy, Recreational drug use, sore throats
When something on the Internet gets popular, it can get really popular. Viral videos and meme-oriented websites are everywhere, as millions of people with the similar senses of humor all discover something at the same time and declare it the funniest thing they’ve seen in the past fourteen minutes. This is all well and good, [...]
Posted by Jason Iannone on Thursday, May 12, 2011 at 12:01 am
Filed under Humor, Internet · Tagged Amazon, author, bacon explosion, barack obama, bleep my dad says, Blogs, books based on websites, CBS, CBS Corporation, comedian, Denis Leary, denis learys tweets, facebook, Facebook Inc, food, garfield without garfield, I Can Has Cheezburger?, Inc., Internet comedy, internet sensations, Internet users, Jason Iannone, Jim Davis, Minus Garfield, obama is your new bicycle, oolong the rabbit, Pain, postsecret, president, scientology, the World Cup, twitter, Twitter Inc, USD, v for vendetta, websites, world wide web
The consumption of blood is scientifically known as haematophagy, and an organism that feeds partially or exclusively on blood is haematophagous. As non-parasitic omnivores, it’s easy for us humans to vilify this seemingly alien lifestyle, but consider the fact that many other creatures, including ourselves, are constantly forced to kill to survive. The animals you’re [...]
Posted by Shell Harris on Thursday, April 14, 2011 at 12:01 am
Filed under Animals, Bizarre · Tagged Americas, bacterial infection, Bedbug, Biology, Blood, bloodsucking creatures, Cat health, creatures who suck blood, diseases, Dog health, energy source, Flea, food, food sources, Galapagos Islands, Hematophagy, illness, incision, injury, insects, Leech, More complex, Pain, Parasitology, Tick, vampires, vampiric creatures, Zoology
The catalog of medical oddities, miraculous recoveries, open questions and unsolved mysteries is so complex and fascinating, that millions of books and articles have been written. While oddities are not particularly desirable, miracles make us happy and strengthen our faith. Unfortunately, many medical mysteries remain unsolved. They are similar to an intriguing puzzle, but with [...]
Posted by Timeea on Wednesday, March 9, 2011 at 12:01 am
Filed under Bizarre, Science · Tagged Allergology, Allergy, anhidrosis, another rare genetic disorder, Aquagenic Pruritus, Aquagenic Urticaria, artificial blood-pumping device, Ashleigh Morris, Australia, Biology, bizarre skin disorder, blisters, brain cancer, Brave Sarah, cardiomyopathy, casablanca, Cheryl Dinges, coma, congenital hypertrichosis, deep coma, dementia, Director of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery, disease, ectopic pregnancy, electricity, Epidermolysis bullosa, Epidermolysis bullosa dystrophica, extremely unusual disease, Fatal Familial Insomnia, fatal genetic sleep disorder, Gertruda, Grand Casablanca, Health_Medical_Pharma, Human Electrical Conductor, infections, injuries, insomnia, Jan Grzebski, Jay Schadler, Jose Rafael Marquez Ayala, Joshua Thurmond, Laura Viddy, Medicine, Melody Gilbert, Miami Holtz Children's Hospital, Michaela Dutton, mobile phones, morocco, New York, New York City, one of the members, Pain, pains, panic attacks, Poland, Prithviraj Patil, railway worker, rare disease, Rare diseases, rash, Ricci, Royal Society of Medicine, Sarah Thurmond, severe head injury, Simmons, Simmons et Simmons, skin disorder, sleep disorders, South Carolina, Supatra Sasuphan, surgeries, syndrome, terrible disease, the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, the NY Daily News, ultrasound, United Kingdom, United States, urticaria, weak and enlarged heart, Werewolf Syndrome, Wolf Kids, Zahra Aboutalib
