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At a certain point numbers begin to lose meaning. The human mind isn’t good with large numbers and the vastness of large…

Sex is weird. How weird? Ask anyone who’s spent time browsing through Amazon’s store of erotic literature and they’ll tell you: deeply…

The French Empire officially refers to the geopolitical entity set up by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1804, though the French colonial empire is…

One universal truth that we, as human beings, cannot escape is the fact that we’re all going to die. It might not…

Medicine is better than ever, thank goodness. And those of us lucky to be alive (and in the right countries and societies)…

Plastic surgery has existed in one form or another for hundreds of years. Of course, 16th century plastic surgery was by no…

If you ever watch life hack videos on YouTube, you know that people are constantly finding cool new ways to do things.…

Status symbols are some of the hardest to understand aspects of any culture or society. What makes any given thing a symbol…

Stand up comedy would be nothing today without comedians making observations about the differences between men and women. And it’s likely people…

How many of us know how the apple got its name, or the onion? We take these words for granted because they…