Sunday now, and you are getting a sick feeling about going to work tomorrow. You must get up early on Monday morning and get ready for the office. Now even the distraction of the idiot-box could not stop this anxious feeling. A thought strikes that you may feign sickness tomorrow and take one day – just one smallish day off but the client meetings and responsibilities at your office will […]
Writer Kurt Vonnegut was an American literary icon who was beloved as much for his attitudes about life as for his unique style of writing. Born in 1922, he was marked in his early life by his experiences in WWII and dedicated much of his career to exposing the tragedies of war, particularly in works like his masterpiece Slaughterhouse Five and his last book A Man Without a Country. Vonnegut’s […]
Owning a business and running it successfully is hard work. If you’ve just started your own business or have been running one for quite some time, you probably know by now that staying motivated to continue is tough as well. But being motivated to run your business is essential if you want to succeed! If you find yourself running out of patience and wondering what prompted you to venture into […]
B.C.’s wolverines are expanding their territory, according to a study published Monday in The Canadian Field-Naturalist. Department of Fisheries and Oceans biologist Tom Shardlow, who authored the report, says at least two wolverines have taken up residence on Princess Royal Island, 130 kilometres south of Kitimat, in B.C.’s Great Bear Rainforest. Shardlow says it’s the first proven sighting of a wolverine in the area. B.C. has 3,000 to 4,000 wolverines, […]
A photographer from Cornwall, Ont., says he’s delighted with his images of a squirrel doing battle with a woodpecker earlier this month. It all began when a red squirrel wandered onto a tree inhabited by a pair of pileated woodpeckers. One of the woodpeckers flew up to the curious squirrel and dislodged it from the tree, sending the squirrel crashing down onto another woodpecker just below. “It had the […]
JUNE 7TH 1665 was an unnaturally hot London day, the hottest that Samuel Pepys had experienced in his 32 years. Sapped by the “mighty heat”, this naval bureaucrat got home late and spent the next few hours pacing in his garden at Seething Lane. He had a lot on his mind. There had been no word of the English fleet that was fighting against the Dutch, and he was […]
In this episode of Truth in Media, Ben Swann explores the origin of ISIS that has already been long forgotten by American media. Swann takes on the central issue of whether or not ISIS was created by “inaction” by the United States government or by “direct” action. Please follow and like us:
Remember the time in a James Bond movie when 007 presses a button in a hallway to open a secret entrance which leads him to the Bond villain’s elaborate and sinister lair? Or when Bruce Wayne hits three notes on a piano to reveal the entrance behind a grandfather clock to the Batcave? As it turns out, Japan has a system which reminded us of that moment a super spy […]
“My name’s Rachael. I need your help,” Rachael Farrokh says, short of breath in a desperate plea for life in a video she posted to YouTube. Farrokh, 37, weighs roughly 40 pounds and has suffered from a severe form of anorexia for more than 10 years. She lives in San Clemente, California, and says her last chance of survival is treatment at a hospital across the country. “In order […]
Most people know that our Brain is the most essential part of our body. It is responsible for our ability to think, express, feel, etc., as well as our ability to breathe. The brain also helps us develop our sense of self and personality. Here are some lesser-known facts about the brain: The brain can predict the future Apparently, there is a Midbrain Dopamine System (MDS) that sends signals to […]
