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“I took my eyesight for granted and trusted someone I shouldn’t have.” A Canadian woman is spreading the news about tattoo awareness after getting a risky eyeball tattoo that may now leave her partially blind. Catt Gallinger, of Ottawa Canada, went in for a “scleral tattoo” on September 5. According to her, immediately after the tattoo was finished, purple dye began streaming from her eye. The next day, it was swollen shut, and now, she says, she can barely even see out of it....

With income inequality as high today as it was in the 1930s, a photo peek into the past presents us with a not-too different vision of our divided present. The Wall Street Crash of 1929 hurtled the coming decade into a financial crisis that would leave a lasting impact across the globe. Authoritarian governments would sink their teeth into nations in Europe, Asia and South America, while most Americans and Canadians suffered from extreme poverty and starvation....

Since joining the al-Shabaab terrorist organization, Samantha Lewthwaite has perpetrated attacks that killed 400 people, leaving the authorities desperately wondering where the “White Widow” is now. Unlike her parents, militant Islamist Samantha Lewthwaite never experienced life in conflict-torn Northern Ireland in the 1970s and ’80s. It was precisely this — her traditional upbringing as a middle-class child in Margaret Thatcher’s England — that made her transformation into a terrorist so confounding....

Though ibogaine has helped some people who are addicted to opioids, the drug remains controversial — and illegal in the United States. Anyone who struggles with opioid addiction knows how difficult it is to quit. That’s why some activists are frustrated that so few people have heard of ibogaine — a naturally occurring psychoactive substance that some say can help reduce opioid withdrawal symptoms. An herbal psychedelic with a rich history, ibogaine was first used by the Pygmy tribes of Central Africa for spiritual rituals....

The mountain lion named P-22 achieved unexpected fame after images of him stalking around Los Angeles of him went viral. Steve Winter/National Park ServiceWildlife officials announced P-22’s death during a tearful press conference. For about a decade, a solitary mountain lion in Los Angeles named P-22 has famously stalked the city’s Griffith Park. But the 12-year-old big cat was sadly euthanized on Dec. 17 after state wildlife officials discovered he’d been hit by a car and was suffering from numerous health problems....

In 2016, the famous nun Mother Teresa was declared a saint by Pope Francis — but many people say she doesn’t deserve it. Mother Teresa racked up a disturbing legacy on her way to becoming a saint. Wikimedia Commons Ever since the Vatican made Mother Teresa a saint in 2016, the response has been controversial and polarizing. In order for Mother Teresa to achieve sainthood, the Vatican had to recognize two miracles that the famous nun performed after her death....

The Yadnya Kasada Festival at Mount Bromo has worshipers toss goods into a volcano, but not many sacrifices make it to the bottom. TO SOME, THE BEST WAYS TO PREVENT DISEASE and disaster are to make regular visits to the doctor and purchase insurance. To certain communities in Indonesia, it’s by throwing all of your worldly possessions into the mouth of an active volcano. Ulet Ifansasti/Getty ImagesA villager tries to catch offerings thrown by Hindu worshippers at the crater of Mount Bromo during the Yadnya Kasada Festival....

Sailing to the South Pole, a dreamy catalogue of one girl’s teen years, nightmare-inducing vintage photos, National Geographic’s best travel photos, and the evolution of women’s swimwear. Vintage Everyday Creepy Vintage Photos That Will Give You Nightmares Looking at old vintage photos out of context is a reliable recipe for creepiness. Most of the images can’t be explained, which leads the mind to create the story behind the photo. We don’t know what else to say about these photos other than don’t look at them before bed!...

To this day, no one knows why the Nazis killed hundreds at Oradour-sur-Glane, the site of one of World War II’s most brutal massacres. Like this gallery?Share it: Share Flipboard Email And if you liked this post, be sure to check out these popular posts: 54 Battle Of The Bulge Photos That Capture The Nazis’ Brutal Last Ditch Counteroffensive 33 Photos Inside The Liberation Of Paris, When The French Capital Was Freed Of Nazi Control...

Al Qaeda via The IndependentHamza Bin Laden Al Qaeda recently released an audio message from Hamza bin Laden — the son of the group’s fallen leader, Osama bin Laden — that threatens violent revenge against the United States for his father’s death. According to the Washington, D.C.-area Search for International Terrorist Entities (SITE) Intelligence Group, the younger bin Laden, widely believed to be in his mid-20s, delivered a 21-minute message entitled “We Are All Osama,” declaring that Al Qaeda will wage war against the United States and its allies....

Time and time again, researchers have excavated the bodies of brittle-boned people that died of rare diseases and found that they were buried in culturally significant gravesites or among those held in high esteem by society. Luca Kis/ScienceThe skull of a medieval Hungarian man with a cleft palate who was buried like a hero. A conference in Berlin that drew more than 130 paleopathologists, bioarchaeologists, geneticists, and rare disease experts has challenged long-held notions that those born with rare physical disabilities such as dwarfism or cleft palates worldwide were treated harshly in the distant past....

In March, the snapping turtle was euthanized. By June, the teacher Robert Crosland faced charges of animal cruelty for which the jury acquitted him. Salt Lake TribuneRobert Crosland, the teacher who fed the puppy to the turtle. An Idaho middle school teacher made headlines last March when he fed a live puppy to a snapping turtle as part of a science demonstration. State officials said shortly afterward that the snapping turtle was euthanized and after a short trial on animal cruelty charges, teacher Robert Crosland was found not guilty....

Rudolf Virchow’s work spanned pathology, forensics, and cancer research. But for all his work, Virchow was also quite ignorant on two of the biggest medical advancements in modern medicine. Rudolf Virchow in 1886 alongside an original illustration of his cell theory. In the scientific community and particularly in the medical community, perhaps no man is as hailed as Rudolf Virchow. Often referred to as the “father of modern pathology” and the “Pope of Medicine,” Virchow is responsible for some of the most important medical discoveries that the field of disease study has ever seen....

Source: Wikimedia Commons Perhaps animals are smarter and more sensitive than homo sapiens give them credit for. Take, for example, the theory that animals can predict earthquakes, a notion that dates all the way back to 373 B.C., when historians reported that creatures such as rats, snakes and weasels hightailed it out of the Greek city of Helice days before it was rocked by a major earthquake. While much of the evidence is anecdotal and the scientific community has not reached a consensus about whether scurrying animals are a harbinger for environmental disaster, one might consider that if they can predict such seismological shifts, why couldn’t the animal kingdom also be sending signals that our planet is sick?...

Until this study, it was believed that the last member of the Beothuk died in 1829. Wikimedia CommonsAn alleged portrait of Demasduit, the aunt of the last-known Beothuk woman. A recent study has found DNA evidence that an unsuspecting Tennessee man may be the descendant of an Indigenous group that was long believed to have gone extinct. The Beothuk once thrived on the Canadian island of Newfoundland — until the Europeans showed up in the 1500s....

Inspiring scientists and artists alike, these staggering cloud formations are guaranteed to blow your mind. Source: Wikimedia Commons At their most basic level, clouds are no more than condensed water and/or ice. These fluffy white substances are created when warm air rises, cools, then condenses onto dust particles in the air, forming tiny droplets around each particle. As more and more particles attach together, a cloud forms. Source: Nothing About Potatoes...

The “Dating Game Killer” murdered at least four people before his television appearance — and would kill again soon after. For most people, September 13, 1978 was an ordinary Wednesday. But for Cheryl Bradshaw, the bachelorette on the TV matchmaking show The Dating Game, that day was momentous. From a lineup of “eligible bachelors,” she chose handsome bachelor number one, Rodney Alcala a.k.a. “The Dating Game Killer”: But at that very moment, he was keeping a deadly secret: he was an unrepentant serial killer....

Thomas Sankara was only president of Burkina Faso for four years, but he improved literacy, liberated women, and spoke out against imperialism before his assassination in 1987. Patrick Durand/Sygma via Getty ImagesThomas Sankara in 1986, just a year before his assassination. A surviving witness described the gunfire from Kalashnikov rifles as rain falling on a tin roof. Within a matter of minutes, Thomas Sankara, Burkina Faso’s young and charismatic president, was dead....

A team of former FBI and CIA operatives, the “White House plumbers” were tasked with stopping information leaks that made the president look bad and fighting back against his enemies. Then things went terribly wrong. On June 17, 1972, a night security guard at the Watergate complex in Washington D.C. noticed that a door had a piece of tape on the latch. This was not usually a cause for concern, as this door was occasionally taped or propped open to allow staff to come and go on breaks....

Watch the unbelievable feats of Kim Peek, the real Rain Man, and discover exactly why he was so special in the first place. In the film Rain Man, Dustin Hoffman plays an autistic savant with an incredible ability to remember details, count hundreds of spilled toothpicks at a glance, and perform other astounding mental feats. But as popular as that film remains, many may not realize that Hoffman’s character was based on an actual person: Kim Peek, the real Rain Man....