For those who grew up watching The Jetsons, a childhood staple from yester-year that more than a few of us will remember fondly, flying cars were a sci-fi dream that we hoped we’d live long enough to see, but never actually believed we would. Well...
Category - Amazing World
Throughout our history, humanity has ventured to new shores to prosper, be it to trade, farm, dig for gold or drill for oil. To the entrepreneurs amongst us, new frontiers mean new resources, new needs, and new opportunities for business. Since long...
“Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic; but destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country.”
– William Jennings Bryan
We all love a mystery, and this one is truly a riddle wrapped up in an enigma. Hidden in the seas of the southern coast of Yonaguni, Japan, a discovery has been made that has confused archaeologists, historians and scientists no end, and kicked off...
The term ‘paradise’ is one which, to say the least, is a little overused. The word has become low-hanging fruit for marketers and advertisers the world over, so you’d be forgiven for being unmoved and unconvinced when, in describing Bora Bora, we...
When it comes to the design and construction of buildings, there is no such thing as architectural modesty: bigger is undoubtedly better. Ever taller, ever grander structures have long been the ultimate symbol of prestige, power and...
It has been said by the great and the wise that the world we live in today has changed more quickly in the last century or so than the 1,000-years preceding. Taking into account the incredible strides forward that have been made technologically...
When you think for a moment about what our species has managed during our short time on Earth, it’s difficult not to come to the conclusion that we’re capable of some pretty astonishing stuff when we put our minds to it.
For many centuries, the old Silk Road of ancient legend – a vast and far-reaching network of land and maritime trade routes, stretching the entire length of the Eurasian landmass from around 120BC to the 1450s – was a beating heart of global...
There are more than a few beautiful and utterly bonkers natural marvels to be found dotted around the world, but the psychedelic Rainbow Mountains of North-West China are something a bit special.
