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On the morning of December 29, 1890, the Sioux chief Big Foot and some 350 of his followers camped on the banks of Wounded Knee creek. Surrounding their camp was a force of U.S. troops charged with the responsibility of arresting Big Foot and disarming his warriors. The scene was tense...

Doesn't anybody else do art around here:

One of mine:

A court has ruled that French Professor Gilles-Eric Séralini was correct when he concluded that GMO food, when fed to rats, caused serious health problems including tumors. What few people realize about the original Séralini study on GMOs is that it was only retracted after a serious PR...

Creston RCMP say an adult cheetah was seen by wandering along Highway 3A near Kootenay Bay, B.C., Thursday afternoon. Police are warning residents in the area to be on the lookout for the large, possibly dangerous cat, and authorities are hoping to speak with the cheetah's owner. At about...

Karma has finally come for Martin Shkreli, America’s most hated man. The hedge-fund manager who became notorious for buying the rights to critical anti-parasite drugs used to treat HIV/AIDS patients and then jacking up the price by 5000% (from $13.50 to $750!) has found himself in a sticky...

RCA Student Invents Artificial Leaf that Can Produce Oxygen The synthetic material can photosynthesize and survive at zero gravity, creating new opportunities for space exploration Vashti Hallissey...

Hinduism (Sanatan Dharma) is world’s oldest Civilization having history over 12000 years; had influence almost across the World till western Abrahmic religions formed some 2500 years back which are rejecting/destroying great ancient human heritage wherever they spread! See 5000+ years...

Besides that, what people think they know about you can only be seen through the filters of their own self image. Every time they pass judgment on you. they are passing judgment on themselves. It is really important to step away from other people's judgments and find out who you really are and...

Thousands protest against Syria air strikes as Stop the War Coalition marches on London Thousands of people have taken to the streets of London to protest against Britain joining the bombing campaign against Isis in Syria. The demonstration was one of many across...

'Die, die!' Police responding to death threats find 'out-of-breath' man chasing spider Police: "Where’s your wife?" Male: "Umm, I don’t have one." Police: "Where’s your girlfriend?" Male: "Umm, I don’t have one." Police: "We had a report of a domestic, and a woman...

Sorry gopher, but Maxwell House isn't coffee (more like floor sweepings from a saw mill) and Cool Whip is an edible petroleum byproduct.

I like Kicking Horse Coffee brewed in Golden BC. I like the Kick A ss dark roast brewed in a French press with cream and sugar in the morning and afternoon. After 7pm, I cannot drink coffee if I want to sleep at night. In the evening I like a hot cup of organic beef broth. In the summer, I like...

I think the Earth exists so that we have a place to learn what it is to be human. As a species, we are still in Grade School in our emotional and spiritual development. But graduation day is coming up soon and those that don't make the grade will end up back in kindergarten. As professor Richard...

OTTAWA | As Canada’s newly elected Liberal government is on the verge of legalizing marijuana, thousands of Hells Angels members have taken the Parliament by storm yesterday to protest the new proposition. The legalization of marijuana could cost the organized crime hundreds of thousands...

Put this in your pipe and smoke it Blackleaf! Better Identification of Viking Corpses Reveals: Half of the Warriors Were Female Shield maidens are not a myth! A recent archaeological discovery has shattered the stereotype of exclusively male Viking warriors sailing out to war while their...

People who like money too much ought to be kicked out of politics, Uruguayan President José Mujica told CNN en Español in an interview posted online Wednesday. “We invented this thing called representative democracy, where we say the majority is who decides,” Mujica said in the interview. “So...

Unlike the Obama administration, Iceland is focusing on prosecuting the CEOs rather than the low-level traders. In a move that would make many capitalists’ head explode if it ever happened here, Iceland just sentenced their 26th banker to prison for their part in the 2008 financial collapse...

Turkish warplanes shot down an unidentified drone in Turkish air space near Syria on Friday and a U.S. official said Washington believed it was of Russian origin. The Russian defense ministry said all of its planes in Syria had safely returned to base and that all its drones were operating...

A few years old but even more relevant today: Study links low intelligence with right-wing beliefs The study, published in the journal Psychological Science, examined data from two large-scale British studies, and found lower intelligence scores in childhood were predictors of greater...