How Much Do the Top 10 Percent Drink? More Than You Ever Imagined Granted the topic isn’t specifically business related (although I could argue that, since entrepreneurship is a lifestyle, anything lifestyle-related is relevant), but the findings of this study are too amazing not to share. I promise you’ll say, “Wait … what?!” First there […]
Missing D-Day veteran pulls off escape to Normandy A pensioner who went missing from a nursing home in East Sussex has been found safe and well – commemorating the D-Day landings in Normandy. Police said staff at the Hove nursing home called them yesterday evening when the WWII veteran did not return after going for
Julie D’Aubigny Julie D’Aubigny was a 17th-century bisexual French opera singer and fencing master who killed or wounded at least ten men in life-or-death duels, performed nightly shows on the biggest and most highly-respected opera stage in the world, and once took the Holy Orders just so that she could sneak into a convent and
Russia reopens investigation into 60-year-old Dyatlov Pass mystery (CNN)Russian prosecutors have launched a new investigation into the mysterious case of nine students who died in bizarre circumstances after disappearing on a skiing trip 60 years ago. Countless articles, books and documentaries have sought to explain the fate of the group from the Ural Polytechnic Institute
10 Things You May Not Know About Alcatraz 1. Al Capone played banjo in the inmate band. The notorious gangster and mob boss was among the first prisoners to occupy the new Alcatraz federal prison in August 1934. Capone had bribed guards to receive preferential treatment while serving his tax-evasion sentence in Atlanta, but that
Thagomizer Thagomizer on mounted Stegosaurus tail A thagomizer is the distinctive arrangement of four to ten spikes on the tails of stegosaurid dinosaurs. These spikes are believed to have been a defensive measure against predators. The arrangement of spikes originally had no distinct name; the term Thagomizer was coined in 1982 by cartoonist Gary Larson
High Performance (Potato) Chips “I’m going to be talking about things that are very familiar to people,” said Tom Lange, Director of Modeling and Simulation at Procter & Gamble (P&G). Not the kind of introduction you normally think of when someone speaks about high performance computing applications. But this is exactly what Tom Lange talked
Surprising Facts About Cats And Their Weird Relationship With Water Cats have a weird love-hate relationship with water. Most cats can’t stand water, but there are a few exceptions. Some breeds even LOVE to swim! But what’s stranger is how cats have evolved to interact with water. Some of these facts may really surprise you!
Giant Tarantulas and Tiny Frogs Are Friends with Benefits Some tarantulas and frogs seem to have an interesting relationship – the unlikely pair sometimes co-exist in shared living arrangements. Measuring hardly more than half an inch in length, microhylids might seem like a pretty insignificant family of frogs. But they’ve crossed onto scientific radars in
3D tech, but zero interest: TV manufacturers stop making set once hailed as future It wasn’t long ago that 3D television was being talked up as the next big revolution in home entertainment. But now it appears that the much-trumpeted concept has died an early death, as the only two major 3D TV makers have
