Cure-alls are, generally speaking, never what they claim. Most medical wonder drugs are nothing of the sort, and snake oil salesmen have existed throughout history, prospering as long as there are people out there who are prepared to believe them. But this is not to say that all such medical supplements are fraud. Some have
Nuclear power is among the most complex and advanced technologies we have developed as a species. Our fission reactors are some of the most complicated machines and systems ever built, which is hardly surprising given what occurs at their heart. Nuclear fission, whereby atoms of uranium are bombarded by neutrons which they absorb, causing them
The Egyptian pantheon of gods is among the most familiar to the modern world. Although perhaps not as well known as the gods of Hinduism, or the ancient Greek pantheon and their knock-off Roman copies, most will know about at least a few of these figures. Names like Isis and Osiris, Horus and Ra will
The pyramids were old for most of Egyptian history. Of the three great kingdoms that this old and powerful civilization spawned, it was the Old Kingdom who were known as the pyramid builders. Such a labor-intensive investment in the afterlife was something which could be justified only in the initial enthusiasm of Egypt’s new religion.
Those who go looking for evidence of UFOs will often end up finding what they are looking for. In a world filled with recording devices anyone with an inbuild bias towards the presence of unknown flying objects will find plenty of shaky footage which cannot be easily explained, and so therefore must be aliens. In
It is early 1862, and Ulysses S Grant has just won two major battles. Fighting tooth and nail in Tennessee as he forced his way south in an effort to splinter the Confederacy and cut off vital supply lines, the victories were the largest the Union had achieved at the time, and earned Grant a