What weird things civilizations used before their time can you think of? Gourds as bowls and cups and fish skin for clothes are only some of the weird things. Animal Horns – Hollowed horns served as cups, containers, funnels, and musical instruments. Bones – Sharpened animal bones became needles, fishhooks, awls, knives, and carving tools. …
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Adoption can quite literally save a child’s life. Kids need a secure environment to grow up and fly right, and adopting a disadvantaged child is a great way to give them a new start. With that in mind, it is pretty awkward when the little girl you adopted turns out to be a middle-aged woman. …
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The product is great. The creative is strong. The brand has genuine momentum. And yet the revenue ceiling refuses to move. This is the story of most fashion ecommerce brands stuck between $1 million and $10 million in annual revenue. They have done the hard work of product development and brand building. They have proven …
It’s late at night, and you’re on your way home in an Uber. The following morning, you realize you left something in the car. That’s a common story, but sometimes people forget something more than phones or wallets. For a decade now, Uber has compiled annual lists of the weirdest things people have reported as …
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Harvesting wild mushrooms for food is a risky game if you don’t know what you’re doing. Many fatally dangerous fungi look virtually identical to perfectly harmless ones. Confusing them may have irreversible consequences. Californian authorities would really, really like it if Golden State residents learned this lesson. Unusually wet weather has caused mushrooms to… Well, …
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Most people assume relocation happens for predictable reasons. A new job, a lower cost of living, a bigger home, or a better school district. Those are all common, and they make plenty of sense. But not every successful move starts with a traditional reason. Some people relocate for reasons that sound unusual at first. They …
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Multiplayer games can be a lot of fun, allowing you to work with or against other players to overcome challenges too big for one person. But they can also demonstrate surprising things about human cooperation. Sometimes, those things aren’t pretty. Player behavior in multiplayer games has (often unintentionally) helped advance our understanding of economics, psychology, …
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The oceans are full of strange creatures. For example, look no further than the remora. Remoras are shark-like fish with a unique suction cup-shaped back fin. With that fin, they can attach themselves to the stomachs of larger fish. Doing so, they can hitch a ride with the bigger, scarier ocean dweller. As they do …
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Thousands upon thousands of giant cockroaches skitter around a house. They’re breeding out of control, their numbers increasing day by day. This isn’t some nightmarish pest infestation scenario, though. It was one dubious character’s illegal moneymaking scheme. Australian police recently pulled the biggest exotic insect seizure in the country’s history. They confiscated an absolutely mindblowing …
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Do you know what’s in your attic? If you live in an older house that has had several previous owners, you might be in for a surprise. People can store precious, weird, or horrifying things in their attics and simply forget they’re there. Or perhaps they choose to forget, as they’d get in trouble if …
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