China is an incredibly secretive and mysterious country; as a result, many people have developed beliefs about what’s going on over there that are simply not true. Even the partial truths have a ton of misconceptions and urban mythology surrounding them.
Elephants were the tanks of the ancient world, lumbering, arrow-proof monstrosities that barreled through entire…
IndieGoGo is a website where people with ideas but no money ask for donations. Much…
Emperor Commodus will go down in history as one of the craziest SOBs to rule…
Daft Punk have virtually never appeared in public without their trademark robot masks on and…
America may not have the highest murder rate on Earth, but its sheer size requires that it have some places that just plain aren’t nice. Here are ten cities where you can make a killing. And where many do.
Even though the government recently acknowledged the existence of Area 51 it is still an…
We all know reading is good for the mind and for the soul, but many of us just don’t have the time to spend staring at a book for hours. Luckily, we have audiobooks, the adult equivalent of having your parents read to you before bedtime. here are ten great books to start you off on.
Doom is one of those games you have to play, if you haven’t, stop reading…
According to The Matrix, we are hooked up to computers that upload a fantasy world into our heads. If that were true, wouldn’t it too apply to movie universes? In short, the fictional world we created for them is actually a fictional world created by the Matrix, a world which the unconscious fictional characters believe is real.
Although sometimes dismissed as merely “the Dark Continent”, Africa has a rich history full of…
As we progress further and further as a species, our science needs to keep up. Luckily, many forward-thinking projects are out there, designed to both preserve our civilization now, and to help propel us into the new millennium and beyond.
The ever popular Call of Duty video game is often criticised for being unrealistic. However,…
Sometimes, history will unfairly relegate certain people to categories into which they do not belong,…
Money as they say, can’t buy everything. Well apparently nobody told Liechtenstein, who decided, you…
Not every statue is of a heroic warrior, or is a symbol of freedom, love, and hope. Sometimes, statues are just, well, bizarre. They’re the kinds of things that, if you ever learned what the sculptor was thinking about as he chiseled away, you might never sleep again.
Now we’ve already covered how badass Bruce Lee is before, but Bruce Lee is a…
Remember when you were young, and your mother told you to chew your food at least 25 times before swallowing? Yeah, many animals do not give one single rip about what your dear Mommy thinks. They prefer to save time and eat their meals in one bite. Their food is still alive too, because killing takes time, and time is money.
Crime is something we’d normally never glorify. Awesome crime on the other hand is something…
There’s at least a 99% chance that the music you love would not exist without the blues. It’s the foundation of just about every bit of popular song released in the past 100 years. Here, we pay tribute to ten of the best, the ones who should be personally thanked by every artist around today.
Dogs as they say, are man’s best friend. A title they have apparently earned by…
If you’re starting up a group, don’t fret if you find your planned symbol was already used by somebody else. You’re still free to use it; you’ll just have to tweak it slightly, so it adapts a whole new meaning that’s in tune with your group and its message.
Along with werewolves and zombies, vampires are among the most popular mythological monsters sweeping mainstream…
In the Amazing Spider-man movie, there’s a scene where Andrew Garfield uses his powers to…