
Airplane crashes
Throughout my childhood, I used to fly several times a year. My parents got divorced when I was five, so I would fly to visit my dad every summer and at Christmas. I wasn’t particularly scared of flying at first, until I got older, into my teens, when I realized how much I had to live for.

Ode to the Luddites
According to UrbanDictionary.com, a Luddite is someone who hates and fears change. It is a term used to describe anyone who fails to keep up with the latest model of iPhone or expresses trepidation at the reach of tech companies into every facet of our private lives.

History's hotties: an irreverent list
Beauty has a powerful effect on the human nervous system. Although beauty neither shelters nor nourishes us in any literal sense, the primitive human desire to seek it out, possess it and create it is undeniable, among the most deeply ingrained of psychological drives.