Yesterday the temperature here in Andalusia went from very hot to unbearable in the shade. Since the house isn’t equipped with AC, the metal shutters went down to keep the heat…

Charles Vane is a character in the series ‘Black Sails’. Among a variety of Pirate Captains, he is the one who stands ethically strong throughout the saga. Most do, but…

The strange sounds and mysterious booms are increasing again… Or let say they have never stopped. Within the last two weeks, several rumblings and creepy noises were recorded around the…

Taylor Swift secretly secretly surveilling her fans using facial recognition technology might sound like science fiction – but Rolling Stone reported on Thursday that the pop star has been doing…

RIP The Kardashians. It is with great lack of even a molecule of sadness that I have to report the demise of the world’s most vacuous, grasping, sleazy, stupid and…

There are times when flip-flops and sweatpants seem appropriate. At a Saturday afternoon picnic in the park. Or at the county fair. Or when you’re a couple preparing for the…

Come what may as long as there’s Meatballs in Tomato Sauce. SD

Khai Ho, 38-year-old self-described breatharian from Birkenhead, in the UK, claims he can last up to three months at a time on only 100 calories per week, surviving only on air,…

From repelling pests with coyote urine to luring big cats with cologne, humans are using odors to influence animal behavior. The villagers of Maharashtra state held their breath as the…

It’s something most of us can only ever dream of. You’re swimming in the ocean, minding your own business, when suddenly a family of sleek marine mammals materialises, joining you…

Becoming allergic to meat turns your life upside down. Known as alpha-gal allergy, the condition dictates what you can eat, wear, how you relax, and even which medicines are safe.…

Project Dragonfly is revealing the depths to which tech giants will sink for financial gain To safeguard our privacy, we need a decentralised internet where personal data is no longer…

Imagination is a wonderful thing. Emotions are often a result of the mind telling us stories without our direction over the outcome. When we imagine any fear repeatedly in a…

There is no shortage of published psychological profiles of Donald J. Trump that attempt to diagnose him, from a distance, as either a psychopath or a narcissistic sociopath (examples here, here, and here).…

Free speech and the ability to speak truth are being shut down. It is happening with the complicity of the print and TV media, the liberal/progressive/left, the US Department of…

Broken and scorched black by fire, the dense, wedge-shaped marks etched into the ancient clay tablets are only just visible under the soft light at the British Museum. These tiny…

Evolution has rigged all of us with a negativity bias—a survival-driven habit to scan for what’s wrong and to fixate on it. In contemporary society, a pervasive target is our…

Despite tweeting just last week that a $716bn defense budget was ‘crazy’, US President Donald Trump has reportedly reversed course and instead committed to the highest budget in history. Trump’s…

New research finds it takes longer for ambulances to arrive and transport a critically ill patient to a hospital in low-income areas. There are perils to living in a poor…

Do not mess with the warrior spirit of the French and do not target the poor. Color of outrage: Yellow Vests rallies sweep across France and abroad France has been…

The brutal truth is, I’m not the greatest friend. I’m neglectful and run hot and cold on people, depending on where my head is at at any given moment. I…

According to the biblical Book of Joshua, the walls of the city of Jericho came tumbling down after the Israelite army, led by Joshua, marched around the city blowing their horns. They are said to have been carrying…

Every day, hundreds of tourists and devotees visit a shrine in Shivapur, a small village about 180 km east of Mumbai, in India, to witness a controversial “miracle” known as…

France has turned into a bubbling cauldron of unrest over the past month as the so-called yellow vest movement has put up roadblocks and taken to the streets to protest…

The Canadian environment ministry says that talcum power can cause ovarian cancer if used on genitals. If inhaled it can also cause respiratory problems like fibrosis, a draft assessment released…

Steve has cops in his family, so he doesn’t tell many people about his work as an underground psychedelic guide. The work takes up a significant amount of his time…

Well…. Seems like the people that really want understanding and tolerance are in dire lack of these qualities themselves. If comedians really can’t express humor or make a pass at…

For too many decades the American people, by which I mean the people born and raised in the US in neighborhoods where there were family and neighbors who shared a…

Facebook offered companies, including Netflix and Airbnb, access to data about users’ friends that it did not make available to other apps, according to documents released by parliament. The 223 pages…

When listening to the radio in December, it’s unlikely to hear holiday songs singing the praises of Krampus: a half-goat, half-demon, horrific beast who literally beats people into being nice…