Tarannum Sattar The K-POP bands paid their tribute to Orlando gay club shooting by gib=ving them a 4 minute long period. This disbandment of longtime favorites gave a mourning period to reflect on the group and their music. The K-Pop industry mourns with America and the LGBT community worldwide as we recover from one of…
Experience Machine: Imagine if you plug your brain into a machine that will bring you ultimate pleasure for the rest of your life. If you are given the choice to sign up for that kind of existence, would you? That’s the question philosopher Robert Nozick posed through a throat experiment he called the Experience Machine….
Samiul Bashar Samin We have person A and person B. Person A shouts at person B a racist comment, degrading him or her. However they include something about it being the public opinion. Person B gets offended and tries to take them to court. But they lose! Why? Because as long as it isn’t “fighting…
Sheikh Mohammad Fahim I used the word “Choose” to symbolize two very important things. The first being that choosing to go professional with a game is not a decision that particularly puts you on a straight route. You will never make it on the first attempt. That’s a given. Choosing to go down the path…
Marilyn Thipthorpe An estimated 400,000 flowering plant species exist in the world, and, understandably, it can be difficult to keep track. The vast majority of us can only recognize and name a handful of plants, even if we would like it to be otherwise. If you would like to sharpen your knowledge in the wonderful…
Marilyn Thipthorpe Have you seen what is believed to be the finest Opal ever unearthed. Named the ‘Virgin Rainbow’, this astounding gemstone was dug up by miners in the desert town Coober Pedy of South Australia. It has been valued at over $700,000 USD as its beauty exceeds that of any other opal ever discovered….
Marilyn Thipthorpe Hyong Yi, lost his wife of 15 years, Catherine Zanga, to ovarian cancer. Rather than mourning her loss in a conventional manner, Hyong, with the help of his two children, Alex and Anna, took to the streets to impact the people of Charlotte, North Carolina. What they didn’t expect was that, thanks to…
Marilyn Thipthorpe At the mouth of the Yangtze River, on the East Coast of China, rests an old and long forgotten fishing village that is being reclaimed by the nature surrounding it. Long, dense vines of ivy have crept into the streets, alleys, and the walls of the buildings, creating this stunning display of the…
Eshan Maitra Almost all of sci-fi fans are very much familiar with the legendary movie ‘Alien’, 1979 space horror classic by Ridley Scott. But little that we know of the Nigerian giant who played the fearful ‘Alien’, the scariest villain of all kind! His name is Bolaji Badejo. That was, almost by an accident. Agent…