On July 20, 1969, the world looked on in awe as 39-year-old astronaut Neil Armstrong stepped off a ladder of the Lunar Module Eagle and onto the surface of the moon, becoming the first human to set foot on a natural celestial object. This moment, watched

In today's BrainFood Show episode, we are discussing three rather inspirational business tails, starting with the extremely humble origins of the now many billion dollar behemoth in Heinz, then on to Karl's favorite all time script in the story of soft so

On June 28, 1839, a ship departed Havana, Cuba en route to Puerto Principe. Along with a crew of 7, including two slaves serving as a cabin boy and ships cook, the vessel was also packed with cargo worth approximately $60,000, or about $1.7 million today

When Boris Yeltsin resigned as president of the Russian Federation, it was expected, but sudden. He resigned so his Prime Minister, Vladimir Putin could become president on January 1, 2000 the start of the new millennium. Since then, Putin has been t

Thanks to Hollywood, as well as words written on the mangled inked corpses of the leafy fellow occupants of our little planet weve successfully subjugated, there are a number of common ideas about how an alien invasion of Earth would go. From clandestine

We dont mean to alarm you, but it turns out, despite how much we all fight it like a toddler whos just been told its bedtime, sleeping is a basic, and critical human need. All animals known to man sleep. Humans, however, are seemingly the only ones wh

For anyone sitting in gridlocked traffic on the way to a soul crushing job surrounded by other humans nattering on all day about their TPS reports as you truly internalize the pointlessness of everything because we’re all going to die and everything we ev

On a snowy, blustery morning in March 1968, a two-man MiG-15 UTI jet took off from Chkalov air force base outside Moscow on a routine training flight. Barely ten minutes later, the aircrafts pilot radioed air traffic control, announcing it was cutting it

We live in, shall we say, politically divisive times which, contrary to somes belief, is no different than really any other point since humans started humaning. From Ancient Rome to relatively more modern times in the likes of Thomas Jefferson secretly

Ah, McDonalds French Fries. According to a poll we recently ran here, 48% of about 42,000 of you prefer this restaurants slender tan starch sticks to all the other restaurant tuber cutting offerings, with this percentage more than double the next runner