“Everybody’s a mad scientist, and life is their lab.” — David Cronenberg Alf was born in Stockholm, Sweden in the black-and-white years of 1833 to an intelligent but relatively poor family. His father, a generalist, had various occupations of an engineer, inventor, and architect. Some of his genes passed onto his 8 children, as the 4 who …
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Compelling writing can transport you to another dimension full of Gary’s. You come home after a long day at the office and enter your apartment building. You stroll wearily to the open elevator, looking forward to a refreshing PB&T sammich. Unfortunately, your annoying 13th-floor neighbor Gary has just come through the front door, noticed you, …
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Not all vaccines are created equal. At least in the eyes of different groups of people, that is. But one of the most widely adopted vaccines in recent years has been for Hepatitis B. It’s is a terrible virus that infects the liver, eventually causing cirrhosis, cancer, and possibly death in around 25% of the …
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I spent one summer as a child becoming extremely good at pogoing — if there even is such a word. I had acquired a rusty old pogo stick from an era long since passed at a local garage sale. I carted the beast back home, greased it up, and proudly announced to my wary family that I …
Serial killers have become a point of fascination in recent years. From the amazing award-winning Bear Brook podcast to Mindhunter on Netflix, media producers guessed (correctly) the public would become captivated by these outliers of society. So today I wondered, would people also be interested in knowing about several notorious killers who could be sitting …
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Money isn’t everything. Unless you’re a high-paid executive in one of the countless unethical modern businesses, that is. Modern society simply values fame, power, and fortune over seemingly everything else these days. And it’s detrimental to our collective well-being. Here are three shocking instances that still heavily affect our world today — for the worse. How 3 …
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“Hi-Ho, Silver, blast away!” The noble white horse. The characteristic silver bullets. The racist trope of a sidekick. Most of us remember The Lone Ranger as a rule-stretching, right-from-wrong-having, justice-always-prevails Texas cowboy with a badge. But if he was based on reality, he probably would’ve been more famous for his bloodlust, torturous ways, and genocide. The …
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Way back in 1920, the newly founded Nazi Party put out a document stating its beliefs and platform. While the document was full of a lot of eye-opening viewpoints and crazy beliefs, there was one point that remained hidden in plain sight — a bullet point that explained the Nazi Party’s views on religion in Germany — point 24: …
I’m sure you’ve played this card game before. Some call it President, others call it Scum, Janitor, or even my personal favorite, Asshole. It’s a simple game that many of us learn as children. You take a full deck of cards and distribute them evenly to 4 or more players. You then follow the rules …
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The year was 1685 and a young mother was worried sick with grief. Her husband was a sailor working for the Kingdom of England’s navy at the time — and she hadn’t heard from him in ages. Her boy, as much as she loved him, wasn’t just sick with missing his father. Something else seemed to be …
Two of the Most Famous Pirates in History Were Secretly Women Read More »
