Most people don’t spend a lot of time thinking about fungus. If you’re not using…
Browsing: Misc
Sometimes we are at a loss for where a top 10 list should go and that means we toss it here. Sure, some lists defy categorization, but Miscellaneous is a category, right?
Daniel McCartney was born in 1817. Nearly blind, he’d had several operations on his eyes…
Still largely based on Victorian mourning culture, with all its staidness and uptight etiquette, funerals…
In fiction, a zombie is a dead thing that is technically not a dead thing.…
If you ever saw the Highlander movies, you may have asked yourself, who wants to…
Cocaine is the most dangerous drug on the streets today, according to an article from…
The human brain has been called the most complex structure in the universe. It may…
Our planet is absolutely lousy with life. A teaspoon of soil from your yard can…
Have you ever considered a sea sponge? They are some of the oldest and longest-lived…
How long can a person live? The oldest human ever, at least that’s been confirmed,…
One of science fiction’s favorite themes is time travel. HG Wells wrote The Time Machine…
Everyone likes to think they’re in control of their own lives and, at the very…
If you spend much time on social media these days, you’ve probably run across at…
How did you start your day today? Did your alarm go off? Did you sleep…
Science fiction is often predicated on the idea that there are many places in the…
The notion of using fingerprints in the investigation of crimes and as a means of…
According to surveys, nearly 80% of people report being exposed to scams during a given…
Like the Bermuda Triangle, Area 51 is one of those enduring mysteries that technically was…
In 1968, Ohio State University glaciologist John Mercer wrote a paper about the dangers of…
Do you hate being stuck in traffic? Do you hate when you get to a…
You don’t hear about mass hysteria often these days, but most of us know the…
The toys and games we grow up with play a major role in our childhoods…
Generations can be a useful way of thinking about society, allowing us to trace social…
Somewhere between one in 20 and one in 10 people claim to have had an…