Nasr Al Niyadi and Omar Al Hegelan, have broken the record for the world’s highest base jump from the top of Dubai’s Burj Khalifa, the world’s tallest structure at 2,717 ft. Continue Reading

Bill Clinton swooped into North Korea on a mission to rescue two Current.com journalists, Laura Ling and Euna Lee.  He succeeded, but it’s not as though the negotiations were going to be particularly hard.  After all, Kim Jong-il just wanted some Western attention–as usual–and he got it.  He just wanted the U.S. to acknowledge that [...] Continue Reading

The contents of my stomach sloshed back and forth as we ascended the foggy Shiwalik Hills—a section of the Himalayan foothills—into Darjeeling, India, a town of just over 100,000. The roads were ridden with potholes, and sliced back and forth into the hills, forming the pattern a falling leaf would have. At roughly 4,000 feet, [...] Continue Reading

Bribes, black market kidney deals, and money being funneled to Israel. Continue Reading

“I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves.”~ Che Guevara Imagine, for a minute, an oil company coming into your town to pump out all the black gold from an oil well that was recently discovered.  They come with their cranes and drills and build a big refinery.  You know it [...] Continue Reading

Schick doesn’t beat around the bush.  They just send out obvious hints that maybe you ladies should, you know, trim it.  After all, this isn’t the carefree sixties and seventies anymore.  Big, fluffy genital fros are no longer in style.  Germs and terrorists are our greatest enemies and hair, especially pubic hair, is a breeding [...] Continue Reading

The World Digital Library launched April 21st, 2009 and its aim is to provide digital copies of a variety of primary sources housed in libraries and museums around the world.  While the collection is still growing, the future for this online gathering of history shows plenty of promise as many of the founding partners are [...] Continue Reading

Ah, you gotta love conspiracy theories.  Some have some legitimacy to them and they really get you to think.  Others, like the one featured above, simply bring a chuckle and a sigh, which is followed by the thought, “Ah, silly, silly, man.”  My favorite part is not the explanation of what Pepsi really means, but [...] Continue Reading

Last Friday, Rodrigo Rosenberg recorded a 15 minute video in which he exposes the Guatemalan government’s direct role in the murder of two of his clients. The video begins with Rosenberg stating, “If you are hearing this message, unfortunately, it is because I have been murdered by the president’s private secretary, Gustavo Alejos, and his partner, [...] Continue Reading

A innovative clothing brand and collective built for the youth culture. Continue Reading

Humans are creatures of circumstance. However, there are those respected voices in the anthropological world such as Richard Wrangham and Dale Peterson that contend we are not. Instead, we are slaves to our biological makeup. According to their essay, Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence, it is difficult to escape our evolutionary [...] Continue Reading

Found this sucka on Digg the other day. Here’s a pretty neat waterfall show in Hakata, Japan’s Canal City which is a large shopping and entertainment complex. Often considered as a “city within the city”, this popular Japanese destination features cafes, restaurants, movie theaters, game centers, hotels and a canal (obviously). Anyways, the dolphin waterfall [...] Continue Reading

The waves have died, but the streets are swarming with Muslim vacationers from Java, buzzing the crowded streets on scooters and sightseeing down shopper-friendly sidewalks. We just got off an eight-day catamaran surf charter to arrive back on this tropical island during the last week of Ramadan. That’s around the same time of the terrorist [...] Continue Reading

The recent terrorist attacks on Mumbai, India filled Thanksgiving dinner conversations around the world. However, with the FCC regulating the mainstream media, many are unaware of the reality of these unfortunate events. Sometimes a photo can say so much more than Anderson Cooper can. Here’s a collection of photos documenting the ordeal as the story [...] Continue Reading

As the international community moves towards a unified vision of one world, we should each take the next step in expanding our knowledge of foreign languages. Let’s begin with the basics. Here’s a list of ways to say “I love you” in over 100 languages: Continue Reading