Scripter's Quest for Knowledge

These are the reasons that I hate Wikipedia: Ø Grammatical errors Ø Explanations that lack thoroughness and simply do not make sense Ø The f...

Yucca Mountain is the planned site of a massive nuclear waste dump. It is located in Nevada, approximately 100 miles Northwest of Las Vegas....

I have been reading a little bit about these uncontacted tribes in the Amazon, and yesterday another article about them on National Geograp...

What are your thoughts?

I sometimes try to avoid discussing social issues for fear of running the risk of offending someone. However, when discussing any issue that...

Here is the immediate reason for my post. While living in the South, I have encountered a lot of ignorance, or what I deem anti-progressive ...

What is the best way to combat ignorance? (I have my opinions, which I will share later, but I would like to know yours.)

Dr. Jane Goodall is probably the most well-known and respected primate research expert in the world. This week, she has been campaigning for...

I love, therefore I must own. In our society, love equals ownership. Is this an innate human fault, or a societal one? One possesses one...

The Vatican (Roman Catholic Church) has stated that it is acceptable to believe in aliens. This is proof of a point which I was actually mak...

The Red Panda is on the brink of extinction. So why is this tiny, adorable Panda given so little attention? I was not aware of its existen...

With so much attention focused on Hillary Clinton and Barrack Obama, it is sometimes diffcult to remember that there is a Republican in the ...

First, let me say that I am someone who does not smoke and who detests cigarettes. I grew up with a father who smoked heavily, and I actuall...

I hate driving. I am lucky enough to live close enough to my job so that I can walk to work every morning. I used to live thirty miles from ...

Sleep: 20 hours; Eat, play, mate: 4 hours This may sound like an average day in the life of an American college student. However, this relax...

According to the Associated Press, the participants in the 2008 Olympics in Beijing will be under scrutiny based not only on their athletic ...

Are we headed for a revival of socialist thought? The U.S. is not the only part of the western world where the middle class are becoming in...

The tapir is a very strange and beautiful looking animal that has intrigued me for years. When I was young, I remember seeing a television c...

Why do some people oppress others? There is a lot of anger in the world; lately, I have come to believe that much of this anger is a result ...

"You're not in the schoolyard playing cowboys and Indians anymore!" That is what I should have said to him. But instead, I sai...