The Olympic Games are always very exciting. It’s fun to cheer for your country and watch some sports that you otherwise don’t see very often. The games seem, as well, like they would be a huge benefit and provide an economic boost to the host country. Perhaps, however, the perceived benefits of hosting the Olympic...
Author: Julie Hambleton
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In the past, we’ve written articles warning about living room televisions listening to your family’s conversations and cells phones recording your voice when you least expect it. Believe it or not, that’s not the only thing listening but it’s not what you would expect. Your car is also listening… for an electronic signal. Do you...
Today’s beauty standards for women are absolutely brutal. We are expected to have perfect hair, skin, nails, and bodies, and above all else, we are not allowed to age. Wrinkles? No. Looser skin? Absolutely not. Gray hair? Don’t even think about it! This is why there are so many cosmetic procedures marketed towards women all...
Has the mystery of how the Great Pyramids or Stonehenge was built bothered you since you first learned of them as a kid? Well, this Michigan man may have figured it out. This is how a man lifts 20-ton blocks around his yard with just simple wooden tools and gravity. Man Lifts 20 Ton Block...
There is no question that we are in an economically crazy time. With the war in Ukraine coupled with supply chain issues and the typical summer bump in gas prices, the price of gas has skyrocketed. This has many looking to electric cars – yet most Americans still aren’t making the switch. These are the...
We often think of art as something that is almost the opposite of math and science. Art is all about seeing things in a different way and exploring our creative mind – breaking all the rules if you will. Math and science, however, are all about finding patterns and rules and applying them. Starry Night,...
During World War II, there was hardly a part of Europe that the Nazis didn’t touch. This includes Norway. The northern European nation, however, also had one of the strongest Nazi resistance on the entire continent. The strongest contingent of this resistance? The teachers and their students. This is the story of the paper clip...
When you feel an odd ache or pain or any sort of strange symptoms of illness, what’s the first thing you do? In today’s day and age, likely many of you do a quick Google search of your symptoms to try and get an idea of what might be going on in your body. The...
Chronic kidney disease is a slow progressive loss of kidney function over a period of several years. Eventually, the patient has permanent kidney failure. Chronic kidney disease, also known as chronic renal failure, chronic renal disease, or chronic kidney failure, is much more widespread than people realize; it often goes undetected and undiagnosed until the...
Dementia is an ever-growing concern in both the United States and around the world. It is estimated that up to half of all men and women aged 85 and older have some form of dementia. Despite this, doctors do not consider it a normal part of aging. With the population only getting older, however, this...
Unless you’ve been living completely off-the-grid for the last eight to ten years, then you’ll know this: Butts are in. Big, round, perky, bouncy booties. While a large backside has been celebrated in black and latina cultures for, well, ever, mainstream (aka extremely white-dominant) media, women were given increasingly impossible levels of thinness to achieve....
If you haven’t heard yet, a somewhat frightening study suggested that when we die, we know that we are now dead. The research team studied people who have had near-death experiences due to cardiac arrest. This is what they found. When We Die, We Know That We Are Dead For the longest time, doctors did...