In California’s Death Valley National Park in 1915, a prospector named Joseph Crook visited the dried lake-bed of Racetrack Playa and stumbled upon scores of boulders that had apparently moved across the surface, leaving very obvious trails. With...
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Pixabay // CC0 Licence Cities such as Los Angeles, Atlantic City and New Orleans have become incredibly popular destinations for a niche type of domestic holiday – the city break. City breaks are designed to be brief, but enthralling and...
Christmas may be the most wonderful time of the year, but summer is when people have the most fun. With great weather, countless outdoor events and college over until the new term, there is no excuse not to take advantage of the good vibes and enjoy...
With October having arrived, fans of the horror genre will only have one thing on their minds: the 31st of the month, Halloween. For most of us, it’s a fun time where we can safely indulge ourselves in the darker side of life and the human...
There are certain images that come to the minds of many when thinking about pre-colonisation Native Americans: one may think of tepees, feathered headdresses and, thanks to stereotyped and often negative imagery peddled by the old Spaghetti...
With the new Tomb Raider movie starring Alicia Vikander now in cinemas, wannabe explorers around the world may find themselves lamenting that, in this day and age, all the blank spaces on the map appear to have been filled in. But, as Shakespeare...
The world has watched in horror as photographs, footage and reports have emerged from the Mexico-US border, showing children forcibly separated from their families by border control and kept in crowded cages. Recordings of children as young as one...
Another week, another headline about a teenage car accident. As new and inexperienced drivers, it’s no shock that teenagers make up a large proportion of road traffic accident victims. While this could be down to the learning process, sometimes...
Nature operates on a delicate balance; when it goes wrong, it goes really wrong. Ecosystems and food chains are one of our planet’s many such balancing acts – however, much like the Force in George Lucas’ universe, breathtaking...
We all know that the majority of stories that reach the newspapers these days are — let’s be honest — less than cheerful. If it’s not wildfires burning on one side of America while hurricanes batter the other, then it’s war or terrorism...
