#1: Seattle, like many large cities, is really a collection of neighborhoods — small towns if you will — that combine to give the appearance of one large urban center. But take the time to look a little closer and you’ll discover each section of the city is distinct in character, with its own attractions […] Read more

Secret societies have an internal structure not at all different from many business or political models. They have a series of held beliefs and rituals, sometimes they even have their own set of holidays and festivals. The difference is that those events and beliefs are hidden and secret. They hide them away in symbols and […] Read more

Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Cub Band spun the music industry on its heels. When the album came out, the public devoured, the critics raved and other musicians stopped in their tracks, recognizing that the game had changed forever […] Read more

In recent years, an unusual spate of deadly shark attacks has gripped Australia, resulting in five deaths in ten months. At the same time, great white sharks have begun appearing in growing numbers off the beaches of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, not far from the waters where Steven Spielberg filmed the ultimate shark fright film, Jaws. What’s […] Read more

Sharks are amazing fish that have been around since long before the dinosaurs existed. They live in waters all over the world, in every ocean and even in some rivers and lakes. Sharks’ diets vary greatly, but they area ll carnivores. Sharks may have up to 3,000 teeth at one time. Most sharks to not […] Read more

#1: Snakes belong to a group of animals called reptiles. Every snake has a long legless body covered with scales, and the tongue that constantly flickers in and out of it’s mouth. By contracting and expanding their muscular bodies snakes can move very quickly in S-shape waves along the ground or in the water.   […] Read more

Snakes belong to a group of animals called reptiles. Every snake has a long legless body covered with scales, and the tongue that constantly flickers in and out of it’s mouth. By contracting and expanding their muscular bodies snakes can move very quickly in S-shape waves along the ground or in the water […] Read more

King cobras hunt at dusk for birds, rats, lizards, and other snakes. They kill their prey by biting and injecting their deadly venom through two fangs in the front of their mouths. The venom goes straight into the blood stream of the victim and either paralyzes or kills it […] Read more

The race is on to install solar panels in American homes thanks to generous government incentives such the $3.2 billion solar initiative California launched in January. Despite the minuscule amount of solar power generated today — roughly one-thirtieth of 1% of all the electricity produced in the U.S. — recent technological advances and a continued […] Read more