Sometimes, a chance meeting can become the most important event in your life. Occasionally, it can change the world, too. That's what happened when grad student Sergey Brin met Larry Page. The two eventually co-founded Google, now one of the largest and most influential technology companies in the world.
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The moon; our mysterious celestial cousin. While you probably won't be going there soon, even for a lot of money, it costs nothing to gaze up at it in wonder. You don't even need a fancy, heavy telescope to even see it.
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If you're being charitable, it'd be fair to characterize some people as having more enthusiasm than common sense. For instance, Rachel Levin wrote about the one the guy who decided it'd be cool to pick up the rattlesnake he found on the trail, and hold it in a pose. You know, for Instagram.
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Jeff Bezos, whose time is very valuable indeed, reached the conclusion that PowerPoint is a waste of his time.
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Odds are your hand sanitizer stinks. No, not the situation (though that's true, if you equate "this stinks" with "this is inconvenient") -- the product. And yes, there's a reason.
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You'll often see knock outs in films, but what you see in movies isn't an accurate representation of what happens when someone's knocked unconscious.
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Have you noticed your hand traveling faster than the step you're standing on? Well, there's a reason for that, and it all has to do with gears and safety.
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Camels are notorious for the humps on their back, so much so that Wednesday, also known as "hump day" is associated with the camel in present-day pop culture. But how did Joe Camel really get his lovely humps?
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Besides giving everybody the theatrical genius of Peter Dinklage on a regular basis, Game of Thrones also popularized dire wolves, those large, toothsome beasties that seem to be the size of a decent pony ... and, if you've got a problem with dogs, the stuff of nightmares.
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It's been speculated that in the middle of the earth, in the land of the Shire, there was, at some point, a brave little hobbit with qualities that a lot of people find admirable. Then, in 2003, according to the Smithsonian Magazine, a discovery was made on the Indonesian island of Flores.
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We all have had an occasion to lie -- sometimes about cherry trees, like George Washington, and other times, just to be polite. There is a difference between social niceties and pathological lying, though. But where is the line, and what happens when we cross it?
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Although they lack the pizzazz of lightsabers, polygraphs — better known as lie detectors — work on the equally fantastical premise that a machine can definitively say whether the subject of the test is lying or not ... and the Supreme Court ruled against them in 1998.
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As if 2020 has not yet done enough, a massive plume of dust from the Sahara Desert is now on its way to the United States.
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Baseball caps -- also tractor caps, or trucker caps -- are everywhere, especially on people's heads. Usually they come off within a reasonable timeframe, but what happens if you wear a hat every day?
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Deep space is immense, brimming with potential — and not unlike Henry Ford's Model T, you can get in any color, so long as that color is black.
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Go ahead. Swim. Splash. Sing the "Baby Shark" song. Just don't drink the cool, clear pool water.
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How far will Amazon go to manifest itself as the platonic ideal of a dystopian corporate hellscape? Very far, apparently.
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James Gunn, the writer and director of the first two movies in Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy series — and, if nothing goes horribly wrong again, the planned third entry — loves his Easter eggs.
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Duct tape — or as its commercially known, Flex Tape — can do many things. Flex Tape even has commercials talking about everything it can stick together. And while it's true some things can be fixed with duct tape... don't believe everything.
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It's rare to beat a world record, let alone have two, unless you're that guy with the record for most world records. However, one dog in the UK managed this feat. Freddy the Great Dane is not just the tallest dog in the world (and one of the largest), but is also now the oldest living Great Dane.
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Thanks in large part to Brad Pitt, society bumped up their Latin vocabulary last year. Added to "et cetera" and "in vino veritas," everyone now knows "ad astra," the title of Pitt's movie about space travel, meaning "to the stars."
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.The Weather Underground carried out bombings and became one of the most notorious student-created activist groups of the 1970s. This is their crazy true story.
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The buffalo population of North America was as high as 30-75 million around the time Europeans started discovering the continent. Yet they almost went extinct.
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On November 12th, 2019, myriad viewers from around the world looked to their television sets and, irrespective of their places on the gender identity gradient, felt sudden and intense maternal impulses. The reason? Baby Yoda.
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The Loch Ness Monster has fascinated people for centuries, earning a distinguished role in the pantheon of famous mythic creatures like Bigfoot and the Chupacabra. Sadly, scientists are ready to burst your bubble — they think it's not a monster, at all.
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Genuine, committed, dyed-in-the-wool dog owners are like golfers: They're really easy to shop for. But there's one thing dog owners are split down the middle about -- dog beds? To buy or not to buy?
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Another cat behavior that can befuddle a human observer is The Stare. Why do they shoot those laser eyes into our souls?
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