Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, your dinner order is arriving. Timbre, a Singapore based bar-restaurant chain, is experimenting with drones to serve its customers as a way to help curb a labor shortage and increase productivity. It claims this will be a first for the global …
Everyone has heard of fortune tellers–from the cheesy TV ads to the neon, lit-up signs in strip malls, but the methods for classic fortune telling go way beyond palm reading and tarot cards. From chicken talons and parrots to “rumpology”, asparagus and entrails, fortune tellers in history have used a …
Imagine waking up in the middle of the night…completely unable to move. It’s terrifying, but a very real phenomenon. It’s been stated that nearly 8% of the general population experiences sleep paralysis. “Your mind wakes up, but your body doesn’t,” explains a researcher at the Sleep Paralysis Project. Most often occurring during …
Burmese Pythons continue to thrive in the Florida Everglades. The habitat is a perfect biological fit for the species indigenous to Central Asia. Their proliferation is evidence that they are at the top of the food chain in the Florida Everglades as evidenced by rare video and photographs of them …
Well, it looks like one of the cutest things on Earth is actually for a good cause, too! The Penguin Foundation, based out of Australia, has been urging people from all over the world to help knit and send mini sweaters they can use to help penguins in need. Unfortunately, it …
In Hong Kong, a baby girl was born with what doctors believed to be two fetuses. A CNN article reports, “Each one had four limbs, skin, a ribcage, intestines and primitive brain tissue, according to a study published this month in the Hong Kong Medical Journal.” The condition, called “fetus-in-fetu,” …
Police in Holland know when they see a marijuana “grow house” in the winter from the outside. Grow houses obviously generate heat and when there has been a recent snowstorm, melt the snow off the roof. The police also had a good reference point since it was an apartment complex …
A man and a woman in Tampa, Florida who fell asleep in a dumpster were loaded into a garbage truck before the driver heard cries for help. Hillsborough County, FL deputies say Donald L. Jordan, 37, and Lisa Spirella, 49, likely became intoxicated at the Seminole Hard Rock & Casino before …
Yes, you read that correctly–and condom costs will continue to rise. In Venezuela, a 36 pack of Trojan condoms is currently going for as much as an iPhone in the US. Would you be willing to pay that much for protection? Venezuela already has some of the highest rates for …
Human beings have always thought in terms of a beginning and an end to everything, from waking up in the morning to going to sleep, from starting a job to resigning, from birth to death. In contrast, the origins of the universe may not be so simple. In fact, there …
