Surprising

Other than the handful of people born with conventionally-attractive features, most of us don’t know what makes us attractive to the opposite…

Many people have a bad habit of taking knowledge for granted. When it’s something a little more esoteric like advanced calculus or…

It’s human nature to want to be the best. To have the most, to achieve more, and to rack up some numbers…

Fruits are wonders of sweetness and seed that we have grown over millennia to feed ourselves. We tend to think that the…

In television, killing off a character must be done just right. Too minor a player and no one cares; too major a…

Medieval fortresses stand as silent sentinels, shrouded in a veil of ancient mystery and awe. These formidable structures, dotted across the landscape…

Most people define vegetarians as people who do not eat meat even though this is not necessarily true. Some of them do…

How hard can it be to build a colonial empire? You jump on a boat, make friends with the natives (then butcher…

The name Genghis Khan is known the world over. His Mongol horde conquered half the world. His empire encompassed everywhere between the…

Most of us try to accomplish necessary life tasks in the easiest way possible. Rube Goldberg, however, entertained the world by drawing…