Well, while the perpetually promised flying car may never actually arrive, these less flashy but equally impressive recent breakthroughs in medical technology could all go a long way toward enhancing the quality of life as we move into an even more distant yet further off future. 10 Custom Biomaterial-Based Joint Replacements While joint and bone replacement technology has come a long way in recent decades, with plastic and ceramic-based devices beginning to take prevalence over metal ones, the newest generation of artificial bones and joints will take the entire concept one step further—by being designed to essentially fuse organically with the body....

Just for the sake of clarity, the correct plural of the word “octopus” is “octopuses,” or “octopodes” if you prefer to use the Greek plural, as “octopus” itself is a Greek word.[1] We will be using the English plural in this article. 10 They Can Hunt On Dry Land Octopuses have gills like fish, which means they depend on water to breathe. Despite this, many species of octopus leave the water for short periods of time to hunt for stranded crabs on land, and some have been known to escape their tanks in captivity and cross rooms to eat fish in tanks on the other side....

The achievements of these women are something that should not go uncredited or unknown. These women were trailblazers, renegades, geniuses, and just plain awesome. 10 Valentina Tereshkova Valentina Tereshkova was the first woman to venture into space in June 1963. Her training in parachuting made her an ideal candidate to become a Russian cosmonaut. She applied soon after women became eligible. The USSR’s decision to put women into space was fueled by a desire to beat the USA to a “first” in the space race....

When wading cautiously into the ocean, any apprehension we experience likely forms the mental image of a shark, and the possibility of being bitten. However, a more bizarre danger lurks. Growing up to 3 feet in length, Needlefish are exceedingly thin hunters with an almost heron like bill. Needlefish may swim at speeds of over 30 knots, and may cause fatal collisions with humans. In 1977, a child was pierced by a needlefish in Hawaii, while fishermen in the Philippines fear them above sharks....

Known also as “The Vampire Killer” and “The Vampire of Sacramento,” Chase was a literal, in-real-life vampire . . . yes, he drank the blood of his victims. With a killing spree from 1977–1978, Chase terrified the city of Sacramento with his bloodlust and brutality. Regardless of the short duration of his murders, Chase was and will remain one of the most terrifying serial killers to ever live. His bizarre reasoning behind his gruesome crimes is enough to strike fear into each and every single one of us: nothing more than pure, ravenous bloodthirst....

Buckle up, because we’re about to hit 88 miles per hour. 10Marty McFly Was A Criminal The classic opening to Back to the Future is perfect. It starts with a slow pan around a room filled with clocks, a great visual for a movie all about time and traveling through it. Then we see our hero, Marty McFly, hooking up an electric guitar to a giant amplifier. The first draft had none of this grace....

They are not necessarily the films that make the most noise, or have the highest grossing openings, because those movies often do not bear watching more than once. To make it onto a list of Movie Classics a film has to make you want to keep rewinding. They are films that you are still thinking about long after the end credits roll, they tell us something about ourselves or our relationships, and sometimes they even take cinema in a new direction....

Franz Schubert’s Symphony No. 8 (sometimes identified as No. 7) really is unfinished. A symphony traditionally has four movements; Schubert completed two movements but then abandoned the project for reasons that are not clear. However, he did sketch a third movement. Various composers have “completed” the symphony based on that sketch, and their interpretation of the first two movements, but for all intents and purposes, Symphony No. 8 remains truly unfinished....

10Carved VegetablesMexico For all of us who hated vegetables growing up, the Night of the Radishes may sound like the title of a horror movie. Nevertheless, it’s a longstanding traditional celebration in Mexico, going back to the main plaza of Oaxaca City in 1897. It’s been going strong ever since. There are parades, feasts, and dances. But the main event, as the name suggests, are the radishes. The radishes are carved into amazing characters, scenes, and displays....

The enigmatic matter does not absorb or emit light. It also doesn’t interact with the three of the four fundamental forces of nature. These elusive properties make it almost impossible to pin down. Researchers across the globe are itching to uncover the mysteries of dark matter—from the search for WIMPs at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) to the University of Washington’s cutting-edge axion detector. While some theories predict the answer will be found in an extra hidden dimension, others prefer black holes and neutron stars....

When Netflix released its hit show ‘Mindhunter’, a new obsession with serial killers was reborn. Throughout the series; FBI profilers Holden Ford (based on former FBI agent John Douglas) and Bill Tench (based on Robert Ressler) establish the Behavioral Science Unit in Quantico, Virginia, where they develop unheard of criminal profiling techniques. In reality, FBI profiler Roy Hazelwood created a theory that serial killers could be categorized as either organized/disorganized....

We know that knights had a coat of arms which they wore on the battlefield to distinguish themselves when they were covered head to foot in armor. But for most of us, our understanding stops there. For instance, most of us don’t know how a father and son from the same family would be distinguished from each other in battle. Or, say, a noble from his bastard son. But heraldry has existed for hundreds of years....

Bernardo and Homolka presented a convincing facade. But their marriage came to a bloody end—with its very own body count. The rape-murders of Tammy Homolka, Leslie Mahaffy, and Kristen French are burned into Canadian history, but here are ten lesser-known facts surrounding the infamous case. 10 Paul Bernardo Was Almost Apprehended Years Before The Schoolgirl Murders Between 1987 and 1990, Toronto’s Scarborough district was rocked by a series of vicious rapes....

10Center For Strategic Counterterrorism Communications A team of about 50 based within the State Department, the CSCC was formed in response to Al Hayat Media, the English language media outlet of ISIS. The “Cadillac of terrorist propaganda” produces a staggering amount of high-quality videos that neatly package their recruiting message, and before the CSCC formed in 2010, nobody was doing anything to refute that message. The team produces their own videos, tweets, blogs, and Facebook posts aimed at “blunting the recruitment pitches online” and causing potential terrorists to rethink their options....

10 Filippo Lippi And Lucrezia Buti There’s not too much about the life of Filippo Lippi that isn’t filled with the details of a modern-day reality show star. Considering that he was first forced into the restrictive life of a monk, we may at least sort of understand why he was so rebellious. Born around 1406 and orphaned as a child, he and his brother were given to the care of a Carmelite monastery....

10St. Augustine’s Theory Of Mind-Time Christian philosopher St. Augustine had a couple of things to say about time. First, he said that time was absolutely not infinite. Time was, according to him, created by God, and it’s impossible to create something that’s infinite. He also said that time actually exists only in our mind, a bizarre conclusion that all has to do with how we interpret time. We may say that something lasted a long time or a short time, but St....

After last week’s mass shooting in Thousand Oaks, California was once again back in the news with another tragedy, this time in the form of Camp Fire, the deadliest blaze in state history. Elsewhere, there were weird scandals in Europe, violence in Australia, and somewhat unexpected good news for the Democratic Party. Let’s do this thing. 10 The Democrats Got An Unexpected Post-Election Boost One of this column’s key takeaways from the 2018 midterms last week was that the predicted Democratic “Blue Wave” never materialized....

This item, a personal favorite of mine and one that’s amazing in itself starts off the list. A Lunar Corona formation is formed through a mix of thin cloud and small droplets in the air. These small droplets scatter the light rays from the moon creating this sort of multicolored moon halo. Interestingly the size of these small droplets define the size of the corona that forms, with the smaller droplets forming the larger radii....

10Blade Runner Blade Runner is a beloved 80s sci-fi flick which is, technically, just about to be proven wrong. Starring Harrison Ford as Officer Rick Deckard, the film is the story of a police officer known as a Blade Runner whose job is to identify rogue “replicants” which are robots almost indistinguishable from humans. The movie is set in 2019,[1] so we are still a couple of years away, but we would likely all agree that flying cars, human-like robots, and off-world colonies are still years away....

10 Apocalypse Now Apocalypse Now is director Francis Ford Coppola’s love letter to violence, an adaptation of Joseph Conrad’s book, Heart of Darkness. This grim vision of the Vietnam War sees a special forces operative sent into the jungle to eliminate a rogue agent named Kurtz. After a brutal journey, the op murders Kurtz with a machete. This attack is interspersed with footage of a water buffalo being ceremonially slaughtered (skip to 2:20 in the video above)....