With eighteen people openly shot at and six people dead, the attempted assassination of US Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords is no laughing matter. If you asked me what was the strangest aspect of US election rallies, I’d have to say it was the persistence of people legally running around openly displaying their firearms. I, as many [...]

Back in early October, Norway decided to bestow Chinese citizen Liu Xiaobo with the Nobel Peace Prize. Xiaobo is currently serving an eleven year prison sentence for speaking out against the Chinese government. It’s his fourth prison term in China and he was chosen for the Nobel prize in recognition ‘for his long and non-violent [...]

Multiculturalism has always been a two way street, you give a little and you get a little. In exchange for being welcomed with open arms and adopted into the local community, you give a up a little bit of where you came from and attempt to secularise. Yes you might not agree with everything and [...]

I don’t know how it happened to be so but over thousands of years of evolution, Asian males have developed a tolerance towards growing facial hair. From the northern reaches of Mongolia, to the outer edges of Japan to the southern boundaries of Indonesia, there’s literally millions of Asian males walking around who’ve never had [...]

I’ve been doing my best to ignore the Chilean mine disaster since the story broke a few months ago mostly because it’s been pretty boring. Sure the fact that 33 men survived on rations designed to last 2 days was kinda impressive but after we made contact… well it was only a matter of time [...]

As an English speaker, when you look at the Indian surname ‘Dikshit’… well, there’s only one certain pronunciation that comes to mind. Whilst your average Joe might be wary about saying ‘Dikshit’ out loud in public the way it’s spelt, it takes someone special to have a go – nonetheless on public television. With the [...]

This story broke a few days ago and upon reading the initial reports in the early hours of the morning, I secretly hoped that fourchan or some other online vigilante group would get involved. For those of you that came in late, so the story goes that Stephanie and Darryl Mann found their cat Lola [...]

Aside from the detrimental health effects of being overweight, one of the other main changes one experiences when they pack on the kilos is the obvious change of appearance. Infact most people raise more then eyebrow when they see someone they haven’t seen in a while who has undergone a sizeable weight change. In the [...]

With a depressing estimate of nine billion people set to inhabit Earth by 2050, it’s no secret that we as a global civilization are going to have to ramp up our food production methods to keep up with demand. The days of livestock grazing on open rolling plains is fast becoming extinct and more then [...]

With the discharging of Oscar, the world’s first full face transplant patient, the progress made in the facial transplant field is nothing short of impressive. To actually be able to take somebody else’s face and reattach it to a new host requires some high level medical and technological precision. It’s a sign of the times [...]