The outrage. After a fourteen-year dominance of the baby name charts, Jacob is no longer what parents are naming their tykes in the US. An equally biblical name has taken over the number one spot: in 2013, Noah was the most popular name given to baby boys. For over fifty years, Jacob and Michael alternated holding the top spot as …
‘Freakshow’ Star Can’t Find A Roommate
Marcus Boykin is perplexed. He’s a star on AMC’s hit reality show “Freakshow” and, he’s well known as “the Creature” — one of the most tattooed and pierced individuals in the world. Despite his fame, the Creature is having trouble scaring up someone with whom to live. “I’m looking for an apartment right now,” he said on a episode airing …
Elizabeth Raine’s Virginity Auction’s Depressing End
A medical school student who was auctioning off her virginity has called off the stunt, after receiving few legitimate bids, according to the Daily Mail. Between March 31 and May 7, Hanna Kern had been auctioning off her virginity under the name of “Elizabeth Raine,” the paper’s website reports. Kern is a 28-year-old double Ph.D./ M.D. student at the University …
NSA Gibberish Tweet Is Not What It Seems
On May 5, the National Security Agency (NSA) published a bizarre tweet that looked like gibberish, a collection of randomly selected letters. Of course, this is the NSA, arguably the world’s leading spy organization, so it didn’t take long for people to realize those seemingly random letters were anything but. They were, in fact, a code. And not a terribly …
Drone Almost Takes Down American Airlines Flight
An American Airlines flight came dangerously close to crashing into an unidentified drone over Florida earlier this year, the Wall Street Journal reports. Jim Williams, who heads the Federal Aviation Administration’s unmanned-aircraft office, revealed at a drone conference in San Francisco on Thursday that the March 22 US Airways flight from Charlotte, N.C. to Tallahassee, Fla. came so close to …
The Truth Cannot Stay Hidden – The Richard Fowler Moment
In this week’s Richard Fowler Moment, Richard reminds us that the truth can not stay hidden forever. These Patrons make the Fowler Show possible ($20+ monthly donation on Patreon.com/FowlerShow) & we couldn’t do it without them! Truthservers.com Are you a fan of The Fowler Show? Become a Patron & help support independent media! Learn more here: http://www.patreon.com/fowlershow Want to help …
This Simple Resume Tip Makes You Look Smarter
Applying for a job? Put your middle name to work. Including your middle initial makes people think you’re smarter, reports a new study published in the European Journal of Social Psychology. In the study, 500 participants read almost the same exact scientific article. The only difference: the author. The researchers randomly changed the author’s name to David Clark, David …