So you've finally decided to get off your ass and try your hand at cooking — but what the hell do you stock your kitchen with? What ingredients are awesome to have around? Which bits and pieces can be used in everything, bought cheaply, and last well? These 18 ingredients are key to a well-stocked...
Graduating from college is an exciting time for many people of all ages. Some choose to enroll in courses right after high school, leaving them with years ahead to pursue the career of their dreams. Other students have chosen to go back to school for advanced degrees later in life, allowing them...
When the dying tyrant Nero proclaimed on his death bed “Oh, what an artist that perishes in me!” his remarks reveal more than just the arrogance of history’s darkest man. They also reveal the almost immutable cultural connection between art and great suffering; between the artist and the sufferer....
Many people have noticed that lately, of the three big Ivy League schools (Princeton, Harvard and Yale), Yale has been ranking a lot lower than Harvard and Princeton. Why would that be? The best answer that we could come up with is that college ranking services are putting more emphasis on...
The life of an author — particularly an author of fiction – is necessarily connected to that which is most dangerous: our consciousness. It is often through the explorative process of creative literature that we touch the exciting possibilities and subversive consequences of our capacities as a...
The 2012 rankings for the 50 Best Colleges & Universities have been released. Coming in at the number 1 spot is Princeton University. According to the rankings publisher: "We set out to create a college ranking that does a better job of measuring the things that prospective students and...
Escapology is the art of escaping from restraints of some kind - such as handcuffs, straightjackets, cages or coffins. The skill has been used as a form of magical entertainment since at least the 1860s, although it didn’t become recognized as an act in itself until later in the century. As the...
Gold is one of the best conducting metals known to mankind. It's also nearly impervious to sulfuric acid due to its nearly unique chemical nature. As if this wasn't enough, gold can be hammered down to only one atom of thickness and worked like clay in its pure state. The physical characteristics...
Why is it that every year just before Christmas a new gaming system is released and your child absolutely needs to have it? With new systems and upgraded games, it’s hard to keep up! The next time the topic of a new game console comes up, try waiting a few months — no one is going to die — and look...
There are a lot of things that can make you feel like just eloping when you're planning your wedding. Many of these things boil down to how you see yourself and your relationships with other people. While you can't just change a relationship instantly, you can ease off on the parts that make this...
