Time flies, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone was released in the United States over twenty years ago. Most youths in the country said that the change in the name of the title was just a quirk. But interestingly, it was entirely the marketing team behind the books that decided that a difference in the...
Doctors at a hospital in France were stunned and speechless after an 88-year-old man came into the hospital with a bomb in his rectum. This incident naturally led to a massive bomb scare. Even the army and the bomb disposal unit were called. Half of the hospital had to be evacuated while the doctors worked...
Deforestation is a far more perilous problem than it was a couple of decades ago. While there have been activists who have called for a halt to the indiscriminate cutting of trees, no viable alternative had been researched. But that ignorance is a thing of the past. We now have technology that can allow us...
Everyone is entitled to make sure they feel protected on any kind of public transport. A plane seat is no exception. However, what if that “protection” becomes an inconvenience for other passengers? Recently, Reddit held a heated debate over such a scenario. In r/mildlyinfuriating, u/grimisical posted a picture of a woman, seated in front of...
Lazzarini, a design studio in Italy, has several plans for the creation of a floating, turtle-shaped city. It will be able to accommodate up to 60,000 guests. This small city will have everything- parks, hotels, shopping centers, and even a plane runway. Furthermore, all of it would function strictly on solar power. The floating city...
Gaming through VR headsets has become quite common these days. But what happens when we come across a headset that can kill users if they die in the game? Yes, you read that right, and this is exactly what Palmer Luckey has created. The father of modern virtual reality and a defense contractor recently manufactured...
An individual, who had been wrongly imprisoned for around 30 years, died just a few months after being released. Claude Francis Garrett was released from the Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Tennessee, USA where he was imprisoned on murder charges. In 1993, Garrett had been convicted wrongfully of killing his then-girlfriend Lorie Lance, in what...
The Indian state of Gujarat is leading the solar revolution, with Modhera being the first solar-powered village in the country. This has set a precedent for Antonio Guterres, the Secretary-General of the United Nations. He considers this to be “a reconciliation between humankind and planet.” This project has reportedly supplied the citizens of this village...
Many of us, probably all, would prefer to skip the queues at the checkout counters after doing our weekly shopping. That’s where self-checkout comes in. Theoretically, it is supposed to make the whole process faster, more efficient, and more secure. Even if the other two might be true, the last condition seems to be facing...
With rising food costs you might be looking to supplement your diet with as much free produce as possible. To do so, you may just have to stroll down to the park. The city of Andernach in Germany is one of the world’s ‘edible cities’. Andernach has parks that have been turned into orchards where...
With the way resources are depleting on Earth every day, it might be wise to invest in another planet. And according to scientists, there could be a potentially habitable planet around 100 light years away. It is understood that the average life expectancy would be close to 3,158 years. The discovery of such a planet...
Let’s just cut straight to the point- who doesn’t like vacations? After all, for most of us, we work to enjoy those holidays even more- if possible. Jonny Wheeler of Clinton showed the world that work and vacation could go hand in hand. It has been 7 years since that revelation, and Wheeler doesn’t seem...
