Andreas Wahl, a Norwegian physicist, tied himself to the side of building forty-five feet off the ground to demonstrate a basic property of physics.  The only thing keeping him from falling and potentially breaking a body part, or several, was a cable with a weight attached to the end.   At first,

Whenever someone starts quoting end times Bible prophesy or reading the Book of Revelation out loud, everyone around kind of splits into three camps.  First there are those who don’t believe in the Bible at all and just plain don’t want to hear anything about it.  Some of those people

It was last June when a team of astronomers employing a network of telescopes across the globe spotted an unusually bright object.  Since then they have been investigating the phenomena and have now issued a report indicating they have discovered the most powerful supernova on record.   An artist’s impression

While many of the usual suspects are represented on the Forbes list of top moneymakers in music for 2015, there are a few surprises.  Most of these come from the wide diversity of artists who made the list.  One thing is clear though. Touring is now the industry’s big moneymaker and

Islamic State terrorists have been announcing that they see themselves as part of the apocalyptic end times prophesied in the Koran and that Jesus will appear soon to defeat the armies of Rome, thus beginning the countdown to the end of the world.  This prophetic interpretation was hinted at by

What mysteries lay in the deep? What treasures are hidden underwater?  The ocean covers 80% of our world. It’s estimated that to date humans have explored less than 5 percent of the entire world’s water. Considering that for centuries travel by water was our primary mode of transportation over long

  The man many call “the most hated man in America” has been arrested for securities fraud.  Martin Shkreli, the 32-year-old chief executive of Turing Pharmaceuticals, “has been called a ‘morally bankrupt sociopath,’ a ‘scumbag,’ a ‘garbage monster,’ and ‘everything that is wrong with capitalism,’” and those are some of

At Cook County Jail, an estimated one in three inmates has some form of mental illness. At least 400,000 inmates currently behind bars in the United States suffer from some type of mental illness—a population larger than the cities of Cleveland, New Orleans, or St. Louis—according to the National Alliance

For a while there it really seemed like alternative energy was going to save us all.  Some experiments produced phenominal results, the politicians were slowly coming around and a couple of massive oil spills had Big Oil reeling in the court of public opinion.  But here we are on the

To quote author, researcher and clinical psychologist Dr. Phil Zediker, “We are in the midst of a healthcare revolution.”  Zediker and others see the future of medicine involving the power of the patient’s mind working hand in hand with modern medicine.  When patients become active participants in their own treatment