The United States of America is one of the most prosperous countries in the world. Despite this, they have one of the most unhealthy populations with decreasing access to healthy, fresh food. The standard American diet is one that, while cheap, promotes a whole host of health issues, including diabetes and heart disease. Unfortunately, for...
A man in Ireland says that he is not an idiot nor was he acting with malicious intent after he took his dead uncle’s corpse to the post office to collect his pension. He claims that he simply was unaware that his uncle was not, in fact, alive. Naturally, many people in his town are...
The 11-year-old died of a bacterial infection from an ankle injury he sustained while running on a treadmill. His family says that he developed a flesh eating infection after a cut on his ankle from the fall got infected. They are now speaking out about the condition and warning other parents to watch out for...
Astronomers recently recorded a breaking radio signal from a remote galaxy nearly nine billion light years away. They detected the first radio transmission with a giant metrewave telescope in the early hours of Friday morning. The galaxy emitted an unprecedented frequency signal that traveled across the universe, where we finally received it on Earth. This...
Even though it is just below our feet, we don’t actually know very much about the inner layers of the Earth, in particular, the Earth’s core. Scientists have detected many seismic anomalies that have occurred between the Earth’s core and mantle. Recently, however, they have discovered that this perhaps has something to do with the...
Let’s be honest: Human beings like to complain – a lot. Whether it’s about the traffic, the weather, or a difficult boss, nothing brings people together like disliking the same thing. It definitely seems like speaking negatively is commonplace in our daily lives, but is it good for us? One study actually shows that chronic...
There’s glamping, and then there’s this. A team of 22 Dutch university students recently completed a 1,800-mile Eurotrip in a solar-powered campervan they designed themselves. Their question? If a group of university students can make something like this, why can’t big companies? (1) Students Complete Eurotrip InSolar-Powered Camper Van The team of students set off...
The Manchineel tree is known as the deadliest tree in the world. Its sap can burn your skin, its fruit can poison you, and the smoke it creates if you burn can temporarily blind you. You may be thinking “Well, I’ve never heard of it, so it must not exist where I live”. Unfortunately, if...
Georgie Purcell, a member of Victoria’s state parliament, has recently found herself at the center of a controversy after an Australian news channel doctored an image of her, enlarging her breasts and exposing her midriff. The altered image was used in a Nine News bulletin after she had criticized the Victorian government’s rejection of a...
When you see money lying on the ground, what is your first reaction? Pick it up, naturally! I mean really, even if it’s only $1 – a dollar is a dollar. That’s what Renee Parsons thought when she picked up a $1 bill off the ground outside a Nashville Mcdonald’s. Unfortunately, it’s possible that the...
The next time you’re about to fry something up using cooking oil, think about this: That oil could power a jumbo jet. That’s right. An Airbus A380 superjumbo completed a three-hour flight from Airbus headquarters in Toulouse, France. This is a big step towards having more sustainable, environmentally friendly flights. An Airbus A380 Superjumbo Completed...
In the past few years, one thing was made abundantly clear across the world: Proper handwashing is really, really, important for public health. One important, and perhaps overlooked step in proper hand washing is the last one, the drying step. There are various methods for hand drying, however, some scientists warn that the automatic hand...
