Next time you make a Costco run to stock up on warehouse-sized boxes of toilet paper and beef jerky, make sure you also prepare for the apocalypse. If the world “ends,” money will disappear and instead we’ll all live off a barter system of canned goods. (Or something.) However, if you do your work now, […]
Hopefully, most of us will never have to experience the horror of a landslide. These things are some of the most underrated natural disasters of all time. Just imagine being on a hillside in a rainstorm. Everything is wet, but it all looks solid. But all of a sudden, the ground gives way and starts […]
In the world of insects, you could make an argument for the praying mantis being the most majestic, even though it’s a ruthlessly efficient hunter. These bugs make quick work of taking down anything that gets in their way, yet still have a certain beauty about them that’s hard to find in other insects. But […]
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You’ve probably heard of self-driving cars, however, the high-tech vehicles are still in the testing stage. But what Elon Musk’s new Tesla models can do is entirely real and 100% awesome. Musk has been at the forefront of many business ventures that are designed to push the boundaries of what we thought was possible, but […]
People either love winter, or they hate it with a passion. There is typically no happy medium between those two feelings. But perhaps those who hate winter are onto something. Scientific and psychological studies have found that winter weather can have drastic effects on your body and mind. Here are just a few of the […]
Like many teenagers, Austin Shifflett was on the receiving end of bullying in high school. He was self-conscious about his weight, and the fact that his fellow classmates taunted him for it only made him fall deeper into depression. But when he went on medication, it only made things worse — a side effect of […]
For most people, the first sign of a headache means a trip to the medicine cabinet to fetch some Tylenol or Advil. But what if you could stop the annoying ache without any drugs? Sure, you can debilitate an attacker with a well-placed finger on the neck — it’s called pressure point fighting — but […]
With today’s technological advances, it seems almost impossible to not know when a volcano will erupt… But when it comes to the one in the northwestern corner of Wyoming, that’s exactly the case. The supervolcano located in Yellowstone National Park known as the Yellowstone Caldera has been waiting to erupt for the past few thousand […]
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