Renting Movies: Online Vs Store
Who doesn't love movies?
No matter what your tastes and inclinations are, there's a movie genre out there for you. More and more people enjoy renting movies to watch in the comfort of their own homes, away from the movie theater crowds, high movie ticket...
Meteor Showers Over the Grand Canyon and Whitewater Rafting with Arizona River Runners
Stargazing in the Grand Canyon is well - grand! The complete absence of light (except for the moon at times) enables you to see the stars at their most glorious. When the last camper has gone to bed, and all is quiet you are blanketed by a night sky burs...
Five Big Predictions for the Post-Election Economy
With the General Election campaigns already in full swing, Britain is destined to become a very different place before too long. But just how different exactly?
Post-credit crunch reality has set in and whichever party gets into power will have some to...
Fun Hollywood Stories Fly off the Bus
Author Stephen Schochet is a professional tour guide in Hollywood who years ago
began collecting little-known, humorous anecdotes to tell to his customers. His new book
Hollywood Stories: Short, Entertaining Anec...
Celebrity Combination Of Qualities! Who Is a Celebrity?
Anyone can be a celebrity! That's really true!
You just need to know the strategies to pave the path for your celebrity destination. However, once you know the tricks of the trade, you need to consistently strive to
Who Is a Celebrity?
A celebri...
Best Fish Fry Techniques and Secrets from a Pro
First, let's talk a little about history. The Deep South has a fancy for perfectly deep-fried fish and the roots of fish fries are deeply entangled in Southern food culture.
"Fish fries are working people's food," says John T. Edge, American Food author...
3 Ways to Showcase Your Talent on the Web
Let's face it. Everybody thinks they can sing or dance or play the guitar or the piano or even that they've got the coolest moves on a skateboard or bike. And with shows like American Idol and America's Got Talent, there's plenty of proof that there a lot...
Singer Sewing Machine History
Isaac Merrit Singer developed the first commercially successful sewing machine. Singer did not invent the sewing machine himself, and never claimed to have done so although this is a common myth.
Born in New York, Singer spent much of his youth devote...
Conning the Climate and Palm Oil
History is replete with examples of scams and con schemes on a scale that makes dizzying reading: the Ponzi scheme, the South Sea Bubble and the Dutch tulip scandal of 1637, just to mention three.
Lately, investment bankers are moving on to an area of ...
Tapeworms, cigarettes and air...five of the worst diets of all time.
It's not a big secret that most diets don't work in the long term. That being said at least most of today's popular diets won't kill you. But every once in a while along comes a weight loss method that is not only mind numbingly silly but potentially dead...
Remembering the Original Dancing With The Stars
Decades before there was a Dancing with the Stars, there was a network television show that ran for 11 years all about dance. It featured stars, music and dancing in the very first network show that featured dance.
Arthur Murray and his wife Kathryn, ...
Plastic Bag Overload
ISP has reported that only 375 tonnes of waste a year is collected in Nairobi, meaning that over 1,200 tonnes of waste is not only left within the community but is then dumped in the local river. In the slum areas of Nairobi there is still not any formal ...
Palm Oil and The BBC: To see and Not to see
An Anthropologist on Mars is a collection of seven essays by neurologist Oliver Sacks about individuals with several brain disorders. In "To See and Not to See," Dr. Sacks tells the story of Virgil, a man blind from early childhood who, in his fifties, r...
Deforestation, Palm Oil and The BBC: The end of impartiality?
The lofty editorial guidelines issued pursuant to the BBC Charter reads:
"Impartiality lies at the heart of the BBC's commitment to its audiences. It applies across all of our services and output, whatever the format, from radio news bulletins via our ...
HCG Diet Recipes to Enjoy
The Trouble With Protein
Protein sources that are allowed on the HCG diet are limited in their variety and in their inherent flavor. White fish, shellfish, and chicken breast are just plain dull without fat. If you could follow Julia Child's advice to ...