Anyone who has watched Buffy, Interview With a Vampire or (oh god) Twilight has probably wondered at some point: If vampires were real, would humanity stand a chance? Well, wonder no more because math has the answer. Dominik Czernia, a physics PhD student at the Institute of Nuclear Physics PAN in Krakow, has created an online tool so you can see for yourself […]
A man in China was out cutting firewood near his village in the mountains of the Shangyu district of Zhejiang province when a snake bit him on the index finger of his right hand. Believing it to be a “hundred pacer” snake (Deinagkistrodon acutus), and believing the bite of the snake to be fatal, the man named […]
In September 2018, a 26-year-old laboratory worker was offered a new job that would involve working with the vaccinia virus (VACV) – a large, complex virus related to smallpox. She was told of the risks involved in working with VACV and given the option of receiving a vaccination against it, but ultimately declined, citing concerns […]
A man living in the state with the highest rate of opioid deaths in America is the first participant of a trial of a technique designed to help beat addiction. He’s had a computer chip and electrodes implanted in the addiction center of his brain where they will send signals designed to limit cravings. Three […]
A disused mine in Wales, with a huge pile of motor vehicles that have been dumped through a small opening, making an amazing reflection in the underground lake below. he Cavern of the Lost Souls is a disused mine in the Ceredigion / Gwynedd area of Wales that holds a relic of the past. The once-bustling […]
Not so long ago, Lady Gaga spoke about her relationship and experience with the so well-known secret organization of the Illuminati. According to Lady Gaga, the chronic illness she is suffering might be the physical confrontation of the evil forces that little by little started to take control of her body. The famous pop artist […]
WITH their teeth ripped out and stakes driven through their chests, these brutalised skeletons reveal the gruesome extent of the vampire hysteria that gripped communities as recently as the 1970s. Remains exhumed from the northeastern United States and across Europe show how mass panic at the spread of disease could lead to the most blood-curdling […]
Shaun Hammonds, a resident of Whitesburg, lately recorded a soul-piercing scream from the woods. The video, published on Facebook about two weeks ago, begins with Hammonds walking outside his house to the treeline with his cellphone hoping to record the noise. Sure enough, throughout the video, the weird, distant howling can be heard several times. His wife […]
Did Donald Trump happen to lose one of his signature hairpieces in the Amazonian wilds of Peru? Wildlife photographer Jeff Cremer snapped this image of a caterpillar sporting the Republican candidate’s signature bright orange-yellow tufts of hair while on a scouting expedition in Peru. The flannel moth caterpillar’s bright yellow-orange tufts are suggestive of a certain presidential […]
They promised to build hundreds of thousands of homes for people left homeless by the devastating earthquake, but they have massively failed. To date, they have built only six houses, although about half a billion dollars were donated. The Red Cross claimed to build 130,000 homes for the earthquake survivors, but so far only 6 houses have been built […]
Use this technique to end the war with your thoughts. Do you ever wonder why it’s so difficult to put down your phone? The conventional answer is that you’re addicted. You’re hooked on distraction both because of their clever design of these apps and devices as well as the drug-like hit of dopamine you get each time you […]
A leading anthropologist suggests that protohumans became domesticated by killing off violent males. The Goodness Paradox: The Strange Relationship Between Virtue and Violence in Human Evolution BY RICHARD WRANGHAM PANTHEON When i was studying for my doctorate, in the late 1960s, we budding anthropologists read a book called Ideas on Human Evolution, a collection of then-recent papers in the field. […]
At the entrance to the Visitors Centre of the European Parliament, there is a plaque with these words: “National sovereignty is the root cause of the most crying evils of our times….The only final remedy for this evil is the federal union of the peoples.” They were written by Philip Kerr, later the Marquess of […]
We all have a general idea of what people like Julius Caesar and George Washington looked like. The images of these historical figures and more have been immortalized with the help of paintings, portraits, and sculptures made when they were still alive. But these works of art couldn’t possibly have been that accurate and in […]
An 11-year-old Iranian high school student in the United Kingdom is making headlines for getting a remarkable result on her Mensa IQ test that even surpasses those of great thinkers such as Albert Einstein and the late Professor Stephen Hawking. Tara Sharifi, a student at Aylesbury High School, recently took the Mensa IQ test in […]