Every once in a while when you’re driving down the street you’ll see one of those houses that has an old, rusted out car parked out front that looks like nature is slowly reclaiming it. Most major cities have at least one scrap yard somewhere too that’s just wall to wall old cars. And even…
Author: Ian Fortey
Most of us in the Western World aren’t as familiar with the history of other nations as we are with our own. For instance, the history of Japan is likely totally unknown to most people beyond their involvement in the Second World War to anyone who hasn’t gone out of their way to learn about…
If all you know about dinosaurs comes from Jurassic Park and Jurassic World you’d be forgiven for thinking they’re all hellbent on eating Hollywood’s most delightful actors and occasionally looking sympathetic as we come to realize that man is the true monster. But dinosaurs roamed the earth for about 175 million years and you know…
Russia is more than just dancing bears, vodka, and oligarchs. It has those things in spades but at 6.6 million square miles with a population of 144 million you know there has to be a few more things going on. It’s a very misunderstood country with admittedly a lot of awful things going on, but…
World militaries have a strange function in society these days, having to be both present and visible yet secretive and under the radar in many regards. We all know the military exists, but what they do is often so under wraps they’ll deny doing it even when people can see them doing it. Case in…
A superstition is essentially anything you believe with no actual good reason to believe it. It is the opposite of science and logic and, in fact, science and logic will tear it apart. So you ignore the science and logic because maybe one day you wore blue socks and got a raise at work, so…
When’s the last time you heard of any good human experimentation? It’s probably been a while. Human experimentation is often grim, grisly and downright terrifying. Sometimes it’s physically harrowing while other times it’s psychologically scarring. Some of the worst examples have proven that mankind has a boundless creativity when it comes to subjecting our own…
The Wright Brothers didn’t exactly create an immutable set of design instructions for the world when they took that first flight in 1903 and really, it wouldn’t have mattered if they had. That they had proven flying machines could work was all that was necessary for the spirit of innovation to take hold in others.…