Michael Vasey, professor of psychology at Ohio State University, found in his research that if you’re afraid of spiders, you tends to perceive spiders as bigger than they really are. This may feed your fear, and make it difficult to overcome. It has been found that spider phobia affects 1 in 6 males and about half of all females. Participants of the study were asked to estimate the size of   Read More ...

A leap year is a year in which an extra day is added to the calendar in order to synchronize it with the seasons. Since the tropical year is 365.242190 days long, a leap year must be added roughly once every four years. Here is a fully explained video of why we have a leap year for those of you who may not know.

On the World Wide Web today, a popular topic is internet Memes. Many well known ones are the trollface meme, the “what I think I do” meme, and other popular memes such as “all your base are belong to us”. Memes have existed long before the internet but have used the internet to gain popularity. It has grown into a way to express ideas across cultures and memes have embedded   Read More ...

Stealing the title from Philippino Junrey Balawing who stood at 60cm (23.5 inches) at the age of 18 last year, Chandra Bahadur Dangi measured in at 54.6cm (21.5inches) when he was sized-up by the Guinness World Records team. ‘The good news is that Chandra Bahadur Dangi is the world’s shortest living man,’ Guiness Records editor-in-chief Craig Glenday declared. ‘If he is really 72 years old he is the oldest person   Read More ...

You’ve probably sculptures made from bicycle chains, but I bet they’re nothing like the ones created by South Korean artist, Seo Young Deok. The incredible ‘works of Seo Young Deok are clearly inspired by the shapes of the human body, but artists have been sculpting masterpieces based on our natural curves for hundreds of years. What makes this Korean designer special is the material he uses for his unique creations – bicycle chains.   Read More ...

In Bakersville, California, police have jailed a man for decapitating, cooking, and eating cats. No pets had been reported missing, so the victims of this man were presumably stray cats. What led to his strange animal cruelty investigation and the eventual downfall of the 35-year-old Jason Wilmert was that he forgot to take one important step before trying to kill the cats for food. Namely, that he forgot to sedate   Read More ...