Korean Girls Taste Well-Known American Snacks For the First Time [Video]
What? No Doritos and Mountain Dew? :) [sw yoon]
Category Archives: Culture
Strong Female Characters in Videogames: Debunking a Myth [Video]
From Youtuber Asalieri2: It’s time to brush aside the oft regurgitated myth that strong female leads in videogames are and have always been nonexistent or relegated to background or joke status. So what do you geeks think? Is this guy right or do you think strong female characters should be more present in games in […]
10 Nonfiction Books That Will Incite Conversations in 2015
What is amazing about nonfiction books is their ability to spark debate and spark conversation among people. They are not fables with heavy mythology, and are often the catalyst of great discussions that may not have otherwise happened had the book not breached the subject first. Flavorwire’s Elisabeth Donnelly has combed over some very powerful […]
Pirate Party Politician Leads Official European Copyright Review
A Pirate Party politician is writing an official review of copyright law for the European Parliament. However, reports that Julia Reda will be writing new rules aren’t quite the case. Reda was elected to the European Parliament last May under Germany’s proportional representation voting system. New rules that removed a minimum threshold meant that although […]
Stan By Your Land: Why Many Country Have Names that End with “Stan”
If you’ve always wondered why many country names from central Asia all end with “Stan,” be sure to check out this enlightening video from Youtuber rootsandroutes explaining the origins of the root word, including how it affected many words in other languages. [rootsandroutes]
The Year in News: What Happened Next (Stories From November-December 2014)
Concluding our look back at the stories we covered during 2014 and what happened next, we turn to November. The Unicode Consortium, which develops standards to make sure characters appear consistently across different software and systems, unveiled proposals for changes to emoji, a system of characters for expressing emotions. It suggested the option to choose between […]
The Year in News: What Happened Next (Stories From May-June 2014)
Continuing our look back at the stories we covered in 2014 and their subsequent developments, we turn to May. Despite finally bringing in a deadline to stop issuing security updates for the 13-year-old Windows XP, Microsoft issued a patch for Internet Explorer on the system, vowing it was a one-off. It has since stuck to […]
13 Things You Think Are True, But Actually Aren’t [Video]
Ok, I’m pretty sure you know about some of these facts, but probably not all of them. [CH]
Author Neal Stephenson Joins Augmented Reality Project
A company working on augmented and virtual reality tech has appointed sci-fi writer Neal Stephenson as its “Chief Futurist.” Exactly what the company is up to remains something of a mystery though. Magic Leap recently received $542 million in start-up funding from investors led by Google, two of whose executives have joined Magic Leap’s board. […]
The Lord of the Rings Mythology in a Nutshell [Video]
Just before going to see the final Hobbit movie, familiarize yourself with the vastly complex mythology of The Lord of The Rings universe. If you don’t feel like going through The Silmarillion, this is the video to watch. [CGP Grey]