In a world where pesticides are frowned upon and where pesky insects thrive, one has to be quite crafty in order to combat for the survival of our food source.Take apple orchards for example. Their fruit can be kept without decay throughout the year in cold rooms, and...
It seems that the famed scientist, A. Einstein, had more trouble finding his way home from work than ‘arriving’ at his stupefying, mind-boggling formula ‘E=MC2’.One evening as Einstein sat deep in thought aboard the train that brought him home, the ticket conductor...
Place de la Concorde, the largest square in Paris, sits next to the Seine River, nestled between the Jardin des Tuileries and les Champs Elysées. Who would have thought that this place was one of the bloodiest of all during the French Revolution?La Place de la...
It was just a simple stone. Nothing attractive about it. In fact, it wasn't even big. It barely measured 12" by 6". It was slanted on a fort-five degree angle, and it didn't even have an interesting colour or pattern. Who would have thought it would inflict so much...
I became quite the expert in hurting my right ankle during our summer vacation. First of all, I burned it in the Bahamas until it developed an XXXX-sized blister. It's amazing what forgetting to cover a foot with sunscreen will do, especially when snorkelling in...
It all started out innocently enough. I was doing a routine search of the ministry websites, looking for a story that had been published a couple of years ago, and when the site search engines repeatedly crashed my web browser, I decided to look it up on Google....
Based on the stories she told again and again, I concluded she had once been a well-to-do woman. But now, as a resident in a nursing home, she was left with only a limited wardrobe and a few photos of her family.As I looked at her, I tried to imagine what she must...