Misunderstood Swear Words

    Samiul Bashar Samin A category of non-swearing taboo language is blasphemous expressions and words that are otherwise unspeakable for certain religious groups. Another category is slurs: words that deride entire groups of people, and that are often associated with hate speech. In slurring someone –you express contempt not only for the person you are addressing,…

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      Chromebooks Replacing Macbooks

      Eshan Maitra Probably not in the countries like Bangladesh, but Macbook is more popular in the US and Europe than windows laptops. But just the last week Google outsold Apple with their latest notebook, Chromebooks. It is not just cause that it is cheap, there are varieties of attractions to this thing.Hell, they even putting…

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        Lingerie Brand NAJA: Redefining “Nude”

        Myisha Nawar The thought that the shade “nude” refers to a single hue on the color spectrum is frustrating. Obviously skin tones vary from the palest of ivory to the richest of browns-and all are beautiful. Lingerie brand Naja gets this and with the reveal of its Nude for All collection, takes up a new…

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          Every Saint Has A Past

          Tara Sattar As human beings, we are prone to be biased towards what we feel is “virtuous”. Be that an activity or social work or a human being. Hence, the popularity of the famous people is either for who they are or who we believe them to be. Such is an example of all the…

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            The Number 1 Fact about Obesity Is Wrong

            Genetics: When fat people blame their fatness on genetics we see this as an excuse. Sure there genetic diseases cause you to get that no matter what. However, these are relatively uncommon. What about all those people who work hard to lose their weight cause in the end while we accept genetics as being somewhat…

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              The Cannibal Online

              Minnie Potter Armin Miewes was a German man who always wanted to devour human meat. He looked for his victim online-and a willing victim at that. He looked for years and years online on chat rooms, his e-mail contacts and other variety of ways. He finally found a victim willing to be his meal- Berned…

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                Flight 401: The Tri-Star Mishap

                Minnie Potter Back in December, 1972, a jetliner which belonged to Eastern Airlines Tri-Star crashed into a Florida swamp due to a few minor faults in design. Pilots Bob Loft and Don Repo were 2 of the 101 people who had to face the ill-fate of plane crash. Now, this is not one of the…

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                  Reducing Dandruff

                  Minnie Potter Most of us have encountered with dandruff at some point or the other. Here’s a few tips as to how to deal with notorious dandruff. 1. Consult a doctor to find an underlying reason, if there is any. Some physical ailments may cause skin to dry up and cause dandruff and it might…

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                    The Internet Lies

                    Samiul Bashar Samin The Tumblr Literally Unbelievable hosts nothing but screen shots of people on Facebook taking at face value the joke news published by the satirical site The Onion. I punctured the myth that there was a rampant feminist who made a class of six- and seven-year-olds cookies that looked like vaginas. I fact-checked…

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                      Korean hit movie “My Sassy Girl” continues

                      Tara Sattar The story of the unlucky Gyeon-woo, the character that is played by Cha Tae-Hyun, in the fall-of-your-seat Korean romantic hit movie “My Sassy Girl” persists in the highly-awaited continuation “My New Sassy Girl” where he is now married to an volatile strong woman played by Victoria Song. In “My New Sassy Girl,” Gyeon-woo…

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