10 Things You Should Know About The Real History of Christmas Christmas is a key celebration in the Christian Calendar, celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ, the son of God and savior of humanity. These days, however, Christmas is a lot more than ‘just’ a religious holiday. In the United States at least, it is… Continue reading 10 Things You Should Know About The Real History of Christmas
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What is Burning Man: 10 Things You Should Know About This Crazy Festival
What is Burning Man: 10 Things You Should Know About This Crazy Festival With every passing year, Burning Man reinvents and entrenches itself as a modern cultural buzzword. Freedom of creative expression, debauchery, radical inclusivity, problematic exclusivity; all of these things have recently been associated with the increasingly (in)famous festival. But the mammoth into… Continue reading What is Burning Man: 10 Things You Should Know About This Crazy Festival
10 Things You Should Know About Life On Mars
10 Things You Should Know About Life On Mars From time immemorial Mars has exerted a fascination on people of all races. This is reflected in the many names, familiar to all who read sci-fi/terraforming novels including Al-Qahira (the Arabs), Huo Hsing (the Chinese), Mangala (the Indians), Nirgal (the Babylonians), Kasei ( the Japanese), Ares… Continue reading 10 Things You Should Know About Life On Mars
10 Things You Really Should Know About The Big Bang
10 Things You Really Should Know About The Big Bang Unless you grew up in the back woods with no access to books, TV or social media the chances are that you have heard of ‘The Big Bang’. We are not talking about the TV show (although we might do a list on that another… Continue reading 10 Things You Really Should Know About The Big Bang
10 Most Famous Internet Cats
10 Most Famous Internet Cats Cute, cuddly, and sometimes downright ugly, internet cats are a part of our popular culture whether we like it or not. From the earliest days of YouTube and GIFs, cats have always been a part of the internet. In fact, the images and videos of cats are some of… Continue reading 10 Most Famous Internet Cats
10 Reasons You Should Read theOatmeal.com
10 Reasons You Should Read theOatmeal.com Do you know what the internet is? If so, you have likely heard of The Oatmeal. This is an extremely popular online comic that covers topics from paradoxical dogs and Nikola Tesla to grammar and everything in between. The smart writing and interesting illustrations are equal parts laugh-out-loud funny,… Continue reading 10 Reasons You Should Read theOatmeal.com
10 Smartest People of All Time
10 Smartest People of All Time As we look throughout history, we know that there are many who stand out as highly intelligent. The question is, however, is who makes the top 10 list of smartest people of all time? As we work through a list like this, it is important to take into… Continue reading 10 Smartest People of All Time
Are Aliens Real?
Are Aliens Real? Top 10 Reasons They Might Be When you gaze up to the sky, what do you see? Most of us see clouds, the sun, moon, and stars, but could there be more? According to NASA, there are approximately 200 billion galaxies in the universe, and each of these galaxies have innumerable… Continue reading Are Aliens Real?
Are Vampires Real? 10 Terrifying Reasons They Might Be
Are Vampires Real? 10 Terrifying Reasons They Might Be Things that go bump in the night are what nightmares are made of, and one of the most terrifying monsters to haunt our dreams are vampires. There are a number of reasons why vampires terrify us, including the fact that they drink the very thing… Continue reading Are Vampires Real? 10 Terrifying Reasons They Might Be
10 Most Contagious Misconceptions
10 Most Contagious Misconceptions When an entire sea of people tells you the same thing over and over again, you tend to take it as fact – even when you haven’t seen for yourself that it’s true. This is how we gain a lot of information: someone else – a teacher, parent, or peer –… Continue reading 10 Most Contagious Misconceptions