The Right-to-Quiet Movement
Shouting down excess noise
Excessive environmental noise can be dangerous to your mental and physical health. Concerned citizens are organizing efforts to preserve their right to a quiet life.
Bee Venom Therapy
A stinging endorsement
Bee stings are extremely unpleasant, but some medical conditions can supposedly be treated by voluntarily stinging oneself.
Monolithic Concrete Domes
Creating buildings out of thin air
A modern method for building homes and other structures out of reinforced concrete requires no framing or internal supports, just a big balloon.
Missile Silo Homes
Hole is where the heart is
All over the United States, enterprising (or paranoid) individuals are turning abandoned missile silos into underground homes. Quiet, safe, and well-insulated, what's not to like?
Ice Hotels
In-refrigerator rooms
In Scandinavia, Québec, and even Japan, tourists flock each winter to hotels built entirely out of ice, and pay big bucks to sleep in unheated rooms on hard beds covered with animal pelts.
Eye Language
Look what you’re saying
A person's eyes, and in particular, the size of the pupils, can give important clues to his or her physical and psychological state.
Tabacón Hot Springs
The relaxing side of the Arenal Volcano
You haven't been to a hot spring until you've visited Tabacón, a resort in the shadow of (and heated by) Costa Rica's Arenal Volcano.
Aproposisms
The right word (for “the right word”)
English has lots of expressions that mean "the wrong word," but no single word that indicates someone has chosen the ideal way to phrase something. Until now, that is: aproposisms to the rescue.
Rock Paper Scissors Tournaments
A stone’s throw from the cutting edge
Possibly the world's least athletic sport, the schoolyard game of rock, paper, scissors has turned into an international competition with huge stakes.
Spotted Handfish
Fish that walk
This small fish that lives off the coast of Tasmania has fins that look and act like legs. It can swim, but it prefers to walk along the sea floor. But it's an endangered species, and might soon take its final walk.