It’s one thing to follow the teachings of Jesus, but it’s another thing to try to eat like him, talk like him, look like him, even vote like him. After reading the book “A Year of Living Biblically,” by A.J. Jacobs, former pastor Ed Dobson decided to devote a year trying to live as Jesus [...]
A teenager in Fairfield Township, Ohio, has found himself on the wrong side of the law after he claimed to be suicidal when talking to a Blizzard representative in an online conversation. He’s now facing charges. While talking to the rep regarding an issue he was having with “an online game” (presumably World of Warcraft) [...]
These holes are not only amazing, but some of them are really terrifying! The sheer magnitude of these gaping holes reminds us of how men will scar the earth to pursue their quest for power and wealth. 1 Kimberley Big Hole – South Africa Apparently the largest ever hand-dug excavation in the world, this 1097 [...]
In the U.S., the kids are snorting Ritalin to get high. But in South Africa, the newest abused prescription drugs of choice are HIV drugs. Teenage schoolchildren in South Africa have been seen grinding up anti-retroviral pills and smoking them, sometimes mixed with painkillers or marijuana. The children say they are buying or stealing the [...]
Pulp science fiction is full of ill-conceived and improbable ideas, from death rays to undersea metropolises. As much as we enjoy the pulps and the wack-ass ideas and infeasible technology that populate them, it’s obvious none of those ideas could ever get any traction in real life, right? Except that’s not the case. History is [...]
