As they say, the future is here. For those of us who grew up watching The Jetsons, it may come as relief (or fright) to know that we’re not as far as we may think from self-aware home machines. Research suggests that in less than ten years from now, we will be operating appliances at...Read More
We all know that beauty doesn’t last forever – and if we’re truly philosophical about it, nothing lasts forever – but we sometimes forget that beauty products, on which we rely to keep us in the limelight, come with expiry dates. We’re all guilty of holding on to our lipsticks and eyeliners for way longer...Read More
On the night of April 6, 2014, Queensland Police raided a bunch of commercial and residential properties in Gold Coast, wrapping up the biggest drug operation in the city’s history, arresting more than 150 people on 400 charges. The total amount of cash and drugs found during this raid equals a street value of $26...Read More
In the race for customers, energy companies have taken to door-to-door salesmanship. If you’ve encountered sales representatives from power companies that knock on your door and proceed to tell you why your current provider is not so good and why you should absolutely switch to their company, you’re not alone. But as the recent $1m...Read More
We’ve had stories like this before coming out of Islamic countries, but here’s one more. A Christian couple has been sentenced to death for sending a blasphemous text message allegedly insulting the Prophet Mohammed. Shafqat Emmannuel and Shagufta Kausar, a couple in their forties, belong to the town of Gojra, which has a long history...Read More
Would you like to live in a house that once belonged to serial killer? Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer, also known as the Milwaukee Cannibal, killed 16 people between 1978 and 1991. When he killed his first victim, a hitchhiker, he was eighteen years old, and he lived with his parents in a three-bedroom house situated on...Read More
‘The weak can never forgive,’ said Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. ‘Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.’ It takes only humanity to burn with hate for someone or something. But it takes the touch of the divine to forgive it wholly, so fully and completely that you’ve torn up the note in your heart and let...Read More
Violence in Afghanistan is not new, but this time it comes on the eve of a possible age of democracy in the war-torn land. For the first time ever in hits history, Afghanistan is going to polls, but Taliban forces have vowed that they will do whatever is in their power to disrupt the voting...Read More
We all have stories, don’t we, of how good we used to look back in the day? ‘Back in the day’ in this context generally means our college days, when we could choose which lectures to attend and which to miss, when no one really wore watches, and when we had all the time in...Read More
Death is a rather painful thorn in an optimist’s flesh. No matter how positive and full of sweet light our thoughts are, the truth is that we’re all going to die and all our achievements will be forgotten. Very few of us will be remembered after our deaths, and among those, a tiny, tiny few...Read More
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