Grammy-nominated gospel singer Peggy Scott Adams thinks funerals homes are too dark so she's bringing them into the light. Adams took over the family business when husband passed away. The Robert L. Adams Mortuary has a 12-foot-wide drive-thru for easy access for the elderly, disabled, or just plain lazy visitors.
"You can ... [Read More]
That a single person can change history is a very dangerous idea so it's not surprising that China is anti-time travel.
The General Bureau of Radio, Film and Television is banning all time travel stories, calling them "disrespectful to history."
Chinahush.com translated the original story: "The time-travel drama is ... [Read More]
It's hard to believe that it's already been a century since the video sharing website, Youtube, debuted. To celebrate they've uploaded the Top 5 Viral Pictures of 1911, which proves the more things change the more they stay the same. Apparently even back then people were getting RickRolled, poorly animating fruit, dressing ... [Read More]
Finnish food activists calling themselves the Food Liberation Army (FLA) kidnapped a Ronald McDonald statue earlier this month, threatening to execute the mascot if McDonald's did not meet their demand for more transparency about the manufacturing processes, raw materials, and additives used in the fast food chain's ... [Read More]
This February NewSouth Books will publish censored versions of "Huckleberry Finn" and "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" that substitute racial epithets like "nigger" "injun" and "half-breed" with "slave" "Indian" and "half-blood" respectively.
An introduction by Auburn University professor Alan Gribben contends that "even at ... [Read More]
Researchers at Harvard have reversed the aging process in mice. First they prematurely aged the mice by genetically engineering out telomerase, an enzyme that creates protective caps on the end of DNA strands called telomeres. The mice suffered from a variety of age-related afflictions such as testes reduced in size and ... [Read More]
At least it's not for the animals at Allwetter Zoo in Muenster, Germany.
A pair of male vultures has been separated after months of living together. One of the vultures will be shipped off to a Czech zoo to mate. The curator, Dirk Wewers, defends the separation saying, "They weren’t happy as a gay couple anyway. The other ... [Read More]
