Category: Trends & News

It was precisely 20 seconds past 9:44am on November 14, 2017 that Japan Railways train number 5255 departed from Minami Nagareyama Station on the outskirts of Tokyo. Hardly anything seems noteworthy about a train leaving a station. It happens countless times each day all over the world. Except THIS particular train was supposed

There are truly so many things to love about Hong Kong. Most visitors would probably gush about the exotic night life or legendary cuisine (the Cantonese, they say, eat anything with four legs… except the table.) All of those things are fine and good. But at the top of my own list of

Rejoice, it’s Friday. Here is our weekly roll-up of bizarre and disturbing stories from around the world. 1. Local government seized countless children based on falsified drug test results For years, the county of Ozark, Alabama hired a private laboratory to analyze paternity and drug tests. These were pretty critical tests… because the

Happy Friday everyone. Here’s our weekly roll-up of some of the most bizarre (and occasionally happy) stories from around the world that we’re following: NYC schools training teachers to discriminate against white students A new mandatory, $23 million “anti-bias” program is training New York City school teachers to discriminate against white children, no

Five years ago, a company called Yo raised $1.5 million at a $10 million valuation. What did investors and end-users get for this much money? An app that allowed users to send the message “Yo,” (and NOTHING else) to their friends. It didn’t take long for the company to blow through all that

In 1956, BMW released a brand new line of roadsters, the 507. It was a slick convertible and became a hit with celebrities. In 1959, the very first Bond girl from Dr. No – Ursula Andress – took possession of this brand new BMW 507 roadster. It was re-designed 40 years later into

Happy Friday everyone. Here’s our weekly roll-up of some of the most bizarre (and often disturbing) stories from around the world that we’re following: Apparently it’s a crime to sit down in public A dangerous criminal in the United Kingdom has been sentenced to 20 weeks in prison after an egregious crime spree.

Like many of our readers, I’ll never forget the Great Crash and the Global Financial Crisis from more than a decade ago. Some of you may be too young to remember. But it was pretty gruesome. One of the largest investment banks in the world collapsed in September 2008, nearly dragging down the

Let the weekly absurdity begin! New SAT scoring will combat Asian privilege The infamous SAT has been used since 1926 as a sort of university entrance exam to objectively test high school students’ scholastic aptitude. Until now. Test administrators announced plans this week to include an ‘adversity score’ for every student taking the

Earlier this month the World Gold Council published its quarterly report– and it shows that central banks and foreign governments from around the world are buying up gold at their fastest pace in six years. This is pretty big news, and it says a LOT about the future of the dollar. Remember, central

Each Friday we highlight a number of important, and often bizarre stories from around the world that my team and I are closely following: Chicago police run a vehicle impound racket Imagine dropping your car off at the local mechanic because you need to get your engine tuned up. A few days later

According to a recent report from Bloomberg, more than 108,000 millionaires left their home countries last year in search of greener pastures. Most emigrated from countries like China and Russia… no surprise there. India also saw a large outflow of millionaires as tax authorities tightened their grip. And Turkey continues to see an

Each Friday we highlight a number of important, and often bizarre stories from around the world that my team and I are closely following: 1. Washington State will allow human body composting It doesn’t get much greener than this. Staking his presidential run on climate change, the Governor of Washington is set to

In the year 1890, according to census records, my great-great-grandfather was spending the final years of his life living with one of his children on a farm in Choctaw County, Oklahoma. I’ve spent most of the last twenty years doing some hardcore research into my family history– and I’ve identified records going all