Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Poop

Poop aka Stools aka Feces. This is the term applied to the discharges from the bowel. They are also referred to as "motions."

The Safety Pin

Though it's unknown exactly where it was invented - perhaps in Mycenaean Greece, or in Italy or Sicily, or even in Denmark - the safety-pin developed from the ordinary straight pin, beyond which in turn there...

Michelangelo Buonarroti

The Art of Ventriloquism

Ventriloquism is the art of speaking in such a manner that the sound appears to be produced at a distance from the speaker. The origin of the word, from venter, meaning belly, suggest that the voice was...

The Invention of the Clock

The mechanical clock, was a medieval invention. The ancient world had measured time, none too accurately, by the sundial and the water-clock. Both these were devices known to the Babylonians in the second...

The History Of Typography

Typography is the art of printing by type, and the art of choosing type faces which are used in the production newspapers, books, magazines, leaflets and webpages. There are virtually no rules in typography, which suggests that it is a true art, but some conventions of the earliest printers still have an influence on modern practice, particularly in bookwork. Type comes from the Greek 'typos' meaning "the mark of something struck, of an impression".

What is Pragmatism?

Pragmatism is the philosophical attitude that the validity of an idea lies in its practical consequences. Pragmatism is the first American philosophy developed independently of European schools of thought....

What is a Barometer?

The two basic kinds of barometers are the mercury barometer and the aneroid barometer. The mercury barometer is more accurate and reliable, but less sensitive, than the aneroid barometer.

Immanuel Kant

Immanuel Kant was a German philosopher and one of the outstanding figures in modern Western philosophy. He founded the school of transcendalism holding that knowledge of the external world depends on sense-impressions co-ordinated by the reason, which operates according to 'a priori' principles.

The Capuchin Monkey

Capuchin monkey, South American monkey in the genus Cebus of which there are four species with numerous subspecies distinguished largely by color differences. The species most commonly seen is the tufted capuchin which bears tufts of hair above the ears, but all species have a patch of darker hair on the top of their heads. Their bodies are stocky with a semi-prehensile tail and the males are larger than the females. The capuchin's name is derived from the resemblance of its hair on the head to