Body piercing is the practice of puncturing or cutting a part of the human body, creating an opening in which jewellery may be worn. The word piercing can refer to the act or practice of body piercing, or to an opening in the body created by this act or practice. While the history of body [...]
1. Paleolithic Diet Also called the caveman diet, the Paleolithic diet is a nurtritional plan based on what human species ate about 2.5 million years ago: fish, animals, plants. The rationale for this is that natural selection has adapted Paleolithic humans to the food in that era. But in the 10,000 or so years since [...]
Photo: livingspree Thailand is a beautiful place to visit, full of wonderful old temples and rich in history. Thai people though are very poor, and money gleaned from tourism makes up a big part of their income. Sometimes the wildlife also attracts tourists, and in one particular place, the locals like to demonstrate how much [...]
Is it a vain world we live in or just necessary treats that we’ve entitled to? We’re talking spa treatments here of course. Many of us will have experienced some kind of spa treatment in our lives (some more than others of course) but recent news stories have revealed that there are some spas offering [...]
La Tomatina tomato fight in Buñol near Valencia happens every year on the last Wednesday in August though the partying starts earlier in the week. The highlight of the festival is the tomato fight which takes place between 11am and 1pm on that day. The event has become one of the highlights on Spain’s summer [...]
Google Earth, it’s fair to say, has revolutionised our generation. Anyone with an internet connection is now able to easily scour the globe from the comfort of their own home. Entire online communities have been formed online that have devoted their time and energies into discovering some of the most bizarre, most unique, and of [...]
You all know that when a volcano erupts, red-hot lava is hurled through the air and the ground shakes, but these factors hardly constitute the real dangers of the volcano. As giant clouds of choking ash and gases come hurtling from the erupting crater, muvch heads into the air above, but not all. A good [...]
Getting fired is never easy. The person who gets fired is likely to feel a mixture of emotions as a result: surprise, anger, frustration, confusion, sadness, hope. Let’s rewind back to one of those emotions for now though: confusion. What if someone was fired and was left with just this one constant feeling? Confusion over [...]
Summer’s almost over, and it’s back to school for some of us. Here are 6 strangest school courses you wish your school offered: 1. Walking Center College in Kentucky has a class on “The Art of Walking”. The teacher takes the students around the college, teaching them to appreciate how to walk properly. He claims [...]
It may seem pretty gruesome, but you could literally take a bite out of a human foot if you visited this bakery in Bangkok, because one of the bakers there got a taste for highly original food art, unaware that it would very quickly become the thing everyone wanted to eat. Kittiwat Unarrom has studied [...]
There is always one problem with popular/successful movies: the threat of sequels. Sequels have the power to really get movie fans’ blood boiling because unless they are better or as good as the original then they will only crash and burn, and potentially tarnish the credibility of the film it tried so hard to follow. [...]
The deathbed can lead people to speak with great honesty and, in many cases, humor. Some are funny, some are strange and some just have no sense.
Kerala Temple festivals in India are elaborate and exotic. The main attraction at these festivals are the elephants. But this dude was more than lucky to escape from an elephant that attacked him during the festival.
You might think curses only happen in scary films, but there are some freaky coincidences in real life. Here are the top 7 real life curses: 1. Curse of the Hope Diamond The Hope Diamond is a brilliant blue diamond, famous for its size (46 carats or 9 g) and more interestingly, the alleged Hope [...]
Paradoxes are rather loosely defined, but can be said to be a true statement that defies intuition. Some have solutions, some don’t. Here are 7 paradoxes we bet you can’t solve. 1. Free will If God is omnipotent and knows what we will do before he created us, how can we have free will? ANSWER: [...]
