Today, America is known as the country of note when it comes to consumer choice. Americans have an absolutely incredible amount of products available at their fingertips every moment and infrastructure in place to quickly get a lot of things they cannot find locally. However, there are some drawbacks to this convenience as well. To
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We all love television. We watch everything from cartoons and news reports to soap operas and sports. Sometimes, it seems like people just can’t get enough TV. The 21st century has revolutionized this industry with streaming services, more shows, and bigger budgets; we even have TV shows about TV shows now. Binge-watching entire seasons of
The legends of Bloody Mary and the Hook Man have been discussed and dissected to death, and no one gets even a single chill from hearing those stories anymore. But, around the world, there are still legends and stories creepy enough to motivate you to read them with the lights blazing while the rain trickles
Christmas is famously the most wonderful time of the year, and one of the most fun things about it for many people is putting up the festive decorations. In most cases, people simply try to choose ornaments that look nice or maybe mean something to them. But for others, Christmas items can be collectibles or
Christmas is a time of peace, love, and joy. Or at least it should be! For many families around the United States and all over the world, it is a time to both celebrate their religious upbringing and faith and take in quality time with those closest to them. There’s usually always a Christmas tree,
Releasing in 1967, Mel Brook’s black comedy The Producers was a wildly successful film that also featured one scene that completely stunned any first-time viewers. The premise of the movie follows two producers on Broadway who come up with a plan to put on a show so horrible and so rancid that it flops immediately,
Insects are everywhere. They are the most diverse group of creatures on the planet, with over 900,000 species identified and named. This represents around 80% of all the animal species that have been discovered. In terms of sheer numbers and mass, insects are overwhelmingly the dominant lifeforms on Earth. It is thought that insects evolved
So you’ve got a tooth lying around, and you’re probably thinking, “What on earth do I do with this?” After all, that’s what most people think when they find a stray tooth, right? Fear not! Your old chomper can find a second life with a dash of creativity and a sprinkle of imagination. We’re sharing
Animals are loyal companions. But to many people around the globe, animals are also food. Animals can be a source of entertainment, from pop culture movies like Babe and The Lion King to a cat chasing a laser pointer dot as if it was the only food source left on the planet. Throughout civilization, the
Method acting has been in vogue since Marlon Brando first mumbled his way through Stanley Kowalski’s lines in Elia Kazan’s 1951 adaptation of A Streetcar Named Desire. But while many of the greats have tried their hand at truly becoming their characters, some actors have taken it to new extremes. A select few have taken
Happiness, heartburn, and even heart disease can all be effects of pizza, but when the anthropologist Agehananda Bharati first mentioned “the pizza effect” in 1970, he did not mean anything caused by eating it. The iconic Italian food’s history was an example of a pattern he had observed where something unimportant in one culture becomes
Everyone is afraid of something, and many fears and phobias are common among pretty much all human beings. In fact, if you aren’t at least a little freaked out by things like heights, spiders, snakes, or public speaking, people may actually think that you are rather strange. However, sometimes, due to cultural differences, phobias develop
Even if you’re not a practicing Christian, the religion of Jesus Christ and his disciples has spread so far and wide—especially in the West and around the English-speaking world—that it’s nearly impossible not to know its meaning as a religious symbol. Meant to memorialize Jesus’ persecution and the power of his faith and belief in
What is a nice, relaxing vacation without an eerie ghost story? Considering that modern humans have inhabited Europe for nearly 50,000 years, it is no wonder the European continent alone has hundreds of them. For example, it is said that if you stand outside the Roman Colosseum and stay quiet, you may just be able
Few experiences in life are as terrifying as being on board a ship as it is sinking. Sheer panic as alarms blare, everything shifts, and the water keeps rising, leaving passengers and crew members with nothing to do but pray that help comes in time so they can see their loved ones again. Tragic situations
We tend to think of inventors as brainy people in white lab coats, mixing small vials of colorful liquid together, and in a puff of smoke, something is invented. Or the engineers laboring away, wrench in hand, as their spouses stand by idly while they waste away in their worthy pursuit of improving the combustion
Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol (1843) is one of the most iconic Christmas stories. The novella is about Ebenezer Scrooge, a miser who becomes kinder after being visited by the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Yet to Come. The story has been adapted and riffed on hundreds of times over the years and has
What can you buy for one dollar today? Maybe a few eggs, a fast-food hot dog, a candy bar, or yogurt. Not much. One dollar is very little, but this is where the irony of life sets in. There have been huge and notable things that were sold for $1. The transactions that fall under
When you hear the word animal, what comes to mind? Perhaps the word causes you to think of marine life, such as the whales, dolphins, and seals that call the oceans home. Maybe it brings to mind the jaguars, sloths, and toucans that reside in the Amazon rainforest. Or perhaps it makes you think of
Artists inspired by real life are famously allowed to exercise “poetic license.” That is, to not let the truth get in the way of a good story. But it sure is easier if the story is already good. And when it comes to opera, where the story is one of several art forms that are
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