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We all have dreams. Maybe you want to race cars. Maybe, like new Oscar winner and former stripper Diablo Cody, you want to become a writer. Maybe, like certain PopFi bloggers (me), you want to quit your day job and write full time from the comfort of your parents’ basement. I don’t know what you […]

Eccentric genius or autistic? That question is being posed by a professor of psychiatry in a book he penned and it’s stirring some debate. As a society, we give a little extra leeway to mental giants, often overlooking outrageous behavior that wouldn’t be tolerated in a factory or office. Michael Fitzgerald, who teaches at Trinity […]

Since the two-hour television movie Knight Rider aired two weeks ago, people have gone self-driving car crazy! Stars and Stripes, an independent online news source for U.S. military news, reports that the American government has a working prototype of an all-terrain vehicle that would require no supervision or human assistance whatsoever in order to operate […]

Bling bling: Get your credit cards ready, because we’ve got a list of the world’s most insanely expensive goodies that will make Warren Buffet look cheap. Interested in hearing how much the most expensive Gameboy costs? Or how about the world’s most expensive bottle of water? It’s all there, but let’s start at the craziest: […]

If you’ve ever wondered where your remote control came from or how your computer ended up with a mouse, don’t worry. The Inventors’ Hall in Akron, Ohio has got your back. The National Inventors’ Hall of Fame, founded in 1973, honors–you guessed it–inventors from around the globe. However, one requirement for being inducted is that […]

Two things are close to the heart of most Americans – their budget and their health. Now, notorious tight-wad couch potatoes have one less excuse for not getting up off the furniture and getting fit. The lack of dough in a wallet should never be an excuse for getting a doughy body in shape. Sure, […]

Put this one under the Casper files, because The Contaminated has logged their list of the most haunted places in the world. It’s not limited to houses either; we’ve got The Queen Mary on board which happens to be a luxury ocean liner-turned-Hotel. The city of Long Beach in sunny California purchased the ship over […]

I spy something black, no white, errr, black, no, wait, white again. OK, let’s make this a little simpler. I spy an optical illusion. What researchers have learned from that optical illusion created by Arthur Shapiro explains more about how the human brain reacts to color stimuli. I guess it’s around fourth grade when we […]

To explain the absolute uniqueness of a cafeteria that is in the heart of the historic district in Los Angeles, it’s probably best to go back to the beginning. Clifton’s Cafeteria was opened as a haven for those homeless people financially devastated by the Great Depression, where food could be purchased for a little, or […]

Property is a status symbol. It can be like sporting a fancy pair of Dolce & Gabbana sunglasses or having the ability to put your dog in a handbag. That’s hot… But property has allure unlike poodles in a purse. I’m talking about owning your very own island, people. And what’s better than landing a […]

Have you ever had an argument with a member of the opposite sex and you found yourself saying, “If you only saw my side of the story… you’d understand.” Well, turns out a difference in opinion is the only thing that differs between men and women’s viewpoints. When it comes to imagining and predicting future […]

Where does nougat come from? How does a word become a curse word? Why do snooze buttons give you nine minutes of extra sleep? These are a few questions from mental_floss which is part of their 25 Most Important Questions in the History of the Universe article. They try to answer over two dozen burning […]