Posts by Archit Tripathi

It’s that time of year again – when folks start firing up their grills, everyone spends more time outside, and, of course, thousands of young men and women across the country graduate from college and get ready to begin the disappointment that is regular adult life! Perhaps it was a taste of things to come...

New Zealand – a country many people know as the place where the Lord of the Rings movies were filmed (and director Peter Jackson’s homeland) – is lovely. It’s got lovely people, too. Yet for some reason, it keeps getting left off maps. There’s actually an entire Reddit thread dedicated to it. Well, New Zealand is...

Between 1972 and 1995, the United States government (primarily the CIA) conducted a multitude of top-secret experiments exploring the possibility of using psychics to gather intelligence.  Collectively dubbed “Project Stargate,” these studies tried to decipher and potentially harness the power of a wide range of paranormal phenomena. With the termination of Project Stargate in 1995,...

Gmail is one of the biggest email providers out there. Just about everyone has a Gmail account these days, and many of us have several. Recently, Google unveiled some major updates to Gmail, adding a whole bunch of cool new features to make it more productive on both desktop and mobile platforms. Confidential Mode One...

In order to raise awareness about Anti-Bullying Day on May 4th, IKEA UAE conducted a truly unique experiment. They took two identical plants and placed them in a local school. Both plants were cared for in the same way. They both had the same water, sunlight, and fertilizers. Their conditions were entirely the same except...

Little League games are… well, let’s face it, they’re not always action-packed. Sure, we all love watching our kids play, but I think we can all also admit that the pace of the games tends to be a bit slow at younger age levels. Well, one little guy decided to inject a little dose of...

Shooting a movie is a huge endeavor. Even with the biggest budgets and a staff of professional consultants, there’s just so much going on from start to finish that it can be hard to keep track of every detail. Here are 8 great examples of blockbuster productions that had major mistakes in them. 1. Braveheart Throughout...

The world is a big, big place. It might not always seem like it, but it’s pretty easy to just disappear – with no trace left of you. Celebrity status doesn’t always help either. Consider these famous disappearances that remain unsolved to this day. 8. Sean Flynn Sean Flynn was the son of swashbuckling Hollywood...

Australian researchers monitoring spiders in the wild say that the world’s oldest spider on record has died at the ripe old age of 43. The previous title holder was a 28-year-old tarantula. In a press release, lead researcher Leanda Mason says, “To our knowledge, this is the oldest spider ever recorded, and her significant life...

FBI agent Dana Scully (played by Gillian Anderson) is one of TV’s most memorable characters, and The X-Files doctor is a role model for a lot more than just learning how to put up with a colleague’s bullshit conspiracy theories. According to a report from the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, Agent Scully has also been...

They say the truth is often stranger than fiction, and I believe it. Just look at all the incredibly weird stuff that you can apparently find across the earth and under the sea. Honestly, if aliens landed in the ocean, we’d probably never even know because they’d barely stand out. There’s just so much weird...

We’ve all had bad days, when it seems that nothing is going our way. Still, it might offer you some comfort to consider these poor souls, all of whom are having the kind of bad day that makes my problems seem absolutely trivial… 1. “I guess the ‘Road Works’ sign on that perfectly smooth highway...

Chick-Fil-A is known for having some truly delicious chicken sandwiches, but they’re also famous for having some of the absolute best customer service in the food industry. These people are GEMS. 1. Now THAT’S a greeting! 2. Their send-off is pretty great too. 3. The sauce is the boss, and you get lots of it. 4....

We all have that friend who’s had an awkward encounter with a celebrity, but you’d think when celebs cross paths with each other they’d be a whole lot more poised and graceful, right? WRONG! Turns out that celebrities can have some seriously awkward interactions with one another, and they’re often several times more bizarre than...

They say a picture is worth a thousand words. In the case of these touching photos, I’d have to agree. 1. Life-changing “My girlfriend just got the call that her donor heart is ready. 30 minutes until surgery. We are so happy.” 2. Fatherly love “A middle school in the USA started a ’Breakfast with Dads’...