Thomas is an environmental advocate currently residing in the Pacific Northwest. In his spare time, he enjoys experiencing the outdoors, raising chickens and ducks, and reading about current environmental issues. Despite slight colorblindness, his favorite color is green.
In 2018, a heartwarming story that portrays the goodness that remains in humanity went viral. While the origins and authenticity remain unconfirmed to date, it’s a feel-good tale of communal love and kindness. A young man named David had gone to an auction to try to buy back his family’s land, and amazingly, 200 other […]
$20,000 sounds like a charm, but I’ll pass. What use is a nice sum sitting in the bank while half my sanity has been taken away forever? The McKamey Manor has been named the world’s scariest haunted house many times over, and in my opinion, it deserves the title. While the scares in most haunted […]
The diversity you find in nature is absolutely incredible. There are so many different plants and animals with specific evolutionary traits, that just when you think you’ve seen it all, you’re confronted by something new, interesting, and at times dumbfounding in nature. Animals can range from being one color or color pattern across their species […]
One of my earliest memories of television as a kid back in the early 1990s was watching the television franchise Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers. A group of super-tough karate teens battled a screeching moon witch, her skinless husband, and their various sci-fi space goons in episode after episode, inevitably culminating in an epic showdown with […]
An undercover investigation carried out by Cruelty Free International and Soko Tierschutz revealed the horrifying animal cruelty that animals are being subjected to at the Laboratory of Pharmacology and Toxicology (LPT) in Mienenbuttel, Hamburg Germany [1]. According to CFI, LPT is a “family-owned contract-testing laboratory carrying out toxicity testing for pharmaceutical, industrial and agrochemical companies […]
One hiker in Florida, Tracey Cauthen, discovered a rare rainbow-colored snake, a rare species that experts haven’t seen in that area for over 50 years. Cauthen spotted the beautiful four-foot-long snake while hiking through the Ocala National Forest, which is 47 miles north of Orlando. The Florida Museum of National History confirmed this sighting was […]
In the United States, the average number of people occupying a home has dropped significantly, from 3.42 in 1947 to 2.53 in 2016. [1] But even though the average size of the household has been steadily declining, the average size of the home has been increasing. In 1971, an average newly built home was approximately […]
For centuries, humans have used the ocean as well as fresh waterways as a sort of dumping ground for various types of pollution, like factory farm runoff, oil, and sewage. As a result, in the United States alone, half of all rivers are too polluted to support healthy aquatic life. [1] And that pollution oftentimes […]
Animal crossings have been around for a while now. They are designed to allow animals to travel safely under and over busy highways and are covered in vegetation to maintain the animals’ habitat. They are popular all over Europe, with the first crossing originating from France in the 1950s. [1] Over the years, the idea […]
Being buried in a big wooden box is slowly becoming a thing of the past. A new project called Capsula Mundi is being developed in Italy that has a unique approach to the concept of death. The idea of having your body become the seed of a tree after passing was developed by Italian designers […]
If you have a warm home, food in the pantry, money in the savings account, a car in the driveway, and feel pretty comfortable with your life, it can be easy to take what you have for granted. You’ve probably gone to college, landed a decent job, and made some pretty smart money moves. Or […]
Food is one of the benchmarks of the ancient and modern Italian culture, and as such, they have it in excess and mouth-watering varieties. The best chefs in the world arguably come from Italy. It’s a wonder that a country so “crazy about food” still has millions of people going hungry, with about 5.1 million […]