A problem with dying on Mount Everest is that there’s a good chance you’ll stay on the mountain, as it’s simply too hard and dangerous to retrieve dead bodies. This is especially true near the summit, which is also the most dangerous leg of the climb. That means when climbers attempt to scale the world’s…
Author: Robert Grimminck
Since the early days of film, there have been philosophical writings about the medium, but in the late 1960s and early 1970s, it started moving into academia. Being a fairly new discourse, film theory often borrows theories from other disciplines like literature, psychoanalysis and gender studies and imposes them on films. These are ten of…
Easter eggs can be found in a wide array of movies and are often inside jokes or winks to the audience. The horror genre is no exception to this, and some of the best Easter eggs can be found in some of your favorite scary films. The Easter eggs are referential, can make the movies…
Music has been an integral part of human civilization for over 55,000 years and continues to be an important aspect of almost every culture on Earth. It’s so dominant that for many people, their life would be empty without their melodies. At the most basic level, music is just a series of sounds. But research has found…
Artificial Intelligence (or AI) got its start in 1950, when computer pioneer Alan Turing introduced the Turing test in his paper “Computing Machinery and Intelligence.” The test involves a judge who must communicate with two participants in two different rooms. In one room is a machine, and in the other is a real person. The…
When it comes to sports, there are a lot of weird, wild stories. Some are just so unbelievable that they couldn’t be real, yet so weird that it’s hard to believe someone simply made them up. These are some of the strangest, craziest tales in the world of sports. Some are true, some are false,…
Nikola Tesla was a man with big ideas, if you couldn’t tell by the 300 patents to his name. Unfortunately, he was way ahead of his time and while a lot of his more elaborate ideas theoretically worked, they never really panned out. Still, while he never received the recognition of his chief rival Thomas Edison,…
Defying the Nazis was basically asking for death or, at the very least, imprisonment and torture. Part of the reason Hitler’s party was able to rise to power was through intimidation and a show of force. Many citizens were too frightened to act out in defiance, yet some had the courage to do what they knew…
We live in strange times, when the end of the world is an odd, morbid fascination with the general population. Apocalyptic TV shows and movies are have never been more popular, but chances are if everything were to come to an end, it wouldn’t result in fighting zombies or racing around like Max Rockatansky. We’re talking about…
Social media is a great tool, as long as you know what you’re doing with it. Unfortunately, not everyone is an expert, and that’s not just limited to some 16-year-old with 37 Twitter followers. It doesn’t matter if you’re a corporate CEO or a lowly intern, sometimes you might hit “send” and realize within minutes…
Space, as they say, is the final frontier, and there’s a lot of it left to explore. For that reason, space agencies and companies around the world have been trying to invent new technologies that will make living in space and even interstellar travel possible. And while many of these discoveries were made for space…
Professional athletes are treated like royalty, and sometimes even gods among men. It’s a type of recognition that most people dream of, but rarely goes beyond the fantasy stage. Of course then you’ve got people who won’t let little things like “athletic limitations” and “lack of talent” stand in their way, and wind up taking…
There isn’t much that’s going to outsell a superhero at the movie theater box office these days, so it makes sense for filmmakers to raid the comic book archives for the next big franchise. After all, comic book heroes come complete with storylines and a built in audience. However, there are a few bold filmmakers who…
Public shaming isn’t a new form of punishment; for example, people used to be locked in stocks for crimes to embarrass them in a public fashion. But in the Internet age, public shaming has been taken to a whole other level. Stories can go viral because they are easier to share and mob mentality of…
Video games have come a long way since Pong. Trends have come and gone, and companies have been left in ruin, but others have struck gold with new and innovative ideas. Video games have become a multi-billion dollar industry, challenging even Hollywood for top dog status. With all the successes and the failures in its short history, the…
Sending a message in a bottle always feels like something that only happens in movies. The odds are stacked decidedly against anyone ever finding the note, and the chances of the intended recipient ever seeing it are astronomical. There are so many things that could happen to keep it from ever being discovered, from the…
The Internet has made the world a smaller place, with a far reaching influence that’s altered the way we view cats and laugh at kids whacked out on drugs after a trip to the dentist. But apart from giving us easier ways to cackle at dumb things, it’s also put more information at our fingertips…
For years, man has dreamed of living in space. However, life off of Earth isn’t quite as easy as it’s depicted in The Jetsons. There are problems that exist in space, like exposure to cosmic rays, which would lead to radiation poisoning. Then there are the dangers of flying space debris, like asteroids. Still, thanks…
We want to acknowledge up front that there’s no definitive proof of alien life, nor is there any evidence that UFOs have ever visited Earth. That being said, there are thousands of people all over the world who have said they’ve seen a UFO, had contact with alien life, or were even abducted. Then there…
The music business is a fickle beast. Taste and trends are always changing, and if a musician doesn’t evolve or continue to put out quality music, they can quickly fall into obscurity. These 10 artists were standing on the edge of oblivion, only to release an album that reignited their careers and secured their legacy…
For over 150 years, humans have been trying to communicate with extraterrestrial life. Despite no definitive proof that anyone has tried to call us back, there has been a number of unusual signals and sounds that researchers are still trying to explain. 10. The Mystery Roar Space is a vacuum, so there’s no sound. However,…
Hollywood is known for putting out some of the weirdest and wildest tales that mankind has ever known. While most of those stories are just on screen, in a city full of clever and creative people, there is always some type of crazy story that seems too strange to be true. But since it’s so…
Traveling to far away planets has been a dream of humanity and a staple of science fiction for over a century. In reality, there are many problems holding us back from these quests, including a lack of adequate technology. But that hasn’t stopped scientists from theorizing how advanced space travel could one day be possible.…
The universe is a vast and mysterious place. There are so many mind-boggling parts of our solar system, the universe and beyond that humans often have a hard time wrapping their brains around it. These mysteries are profound and often are connected with the inner workings of the universe and the very existence of life.…